Cruising
pp. 64-65 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• A number of overseas yachts, including some from Australia, visited Samarai in Papua New Guinea recently. They included: • MARYAMA, 32 ft Colin Archer designed yacht, which had cruised in PNG waters and was on the way back to Australia.
On board were Jim and Cathy Downie • HOHOQ, 10 metre cutter, built in Den mark in 1938, carrying Ted and Jane De Villa and Cathy Colgam. • CANESH, 29 ft 7 in modified Herkoshoff ketch, built in Whangarei, NZ, from Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Australia, carrying Reinhard Haiber and Arleen Hicks and Kiki the cat. • DREAMTIME, from Australia, carry ing Davy and Sue Jones. • CHRISTIAN ROSE, formerly a US buoy tender, carrying Rodney Drew and Shan Drew • ABRAXOS, 40 ft fibreglass ketch, carrying builder-owner-skipper Rod Lewis, his wife Carol and children Aaron and Mereid. • SUN DANCER, 45 ft Hartley design ferro cement yacht, from Sydney, carrying D Piper and N. Short. • ZUGVOGEL, 36 ft ferro cement yacht, home built in Toronto, Canada, carrying Rudolf Halbrichter and his wife. • SHI BUI, 44 ft sloop, carrying Mr and Mrs Cutlack and Gary Baldwin. • ROSALIESEL, from Brisbane, with Keith and Ann Davis. • RODIAM, 40 ft steel yacht, built by Halvorsen in Sydney, carrying Steven, Kim, Arron and Marise Kent. • John Mansell would like to hear from the owner of the mv Taxos. His address is PO Box 2, Samarai, Papua New Guinea • PELORUS JACK, 50 ft ketch registered in Montreal, arrived at Rarotonga on November 20 from Papeete, Raiatea and Bora Bora. On board were skipper Bernard Gunn and fami ly: Patricia the cook, and seamen Alistair Gunn, Derek I. Gunn and Derek D. Gunn all New Zealanders. They sailed for Niue and Auckland on November 26. • TYEE, 44 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on November 23 from Niue, bound for Bora Bora, with Captain William C.
Whipple, and Elizabeth and Lawrence Whip ple. They sailed from Rarotonga on November 29. • AN DEN SEOUL, 40 ft ketch built in Holland and owned by Bob and Jacqueline Crolar of France, left Amsterdam two years
ago for a round-the-world cruise. After visiting Africa, where the Crolars lived for 21 years, they sailed across the Atlantic to the West Indies, then on to the Pacific, where they visited the Galapagos and Marquesas, before arriving in Tahiti in mid-June, 1976.
Their plans were to stay in French Polynesia for approximately two years while they both work in Papeete. • CONTENT, 47 ft William Garden design ketch built in Taiwan and launched in 1974, sailed into Tahiti last July for a long visit before continuing eastward. The Geary family of Tom, Nancy and 11-year-old Tom, Jr, left Taiwan in March, 1974, and visited Hong Kong, the Philippines, the Carolines, New Guinea, the Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji and the Cooks. In November, 1974, when crossing the China Sea from Hong Kong to Manila, they were hit by a typhoon and lost their steering. They jury-rigged a tiller and limped into the nearest island in the Philip pines for repairs. In 1976 they collided with another boat off the coast of Western Samoa, The other boat was running dark. No major damage was felt by Content, but the other lost a mast. Young Tom is currently attending school in Papeete where they are waiting out the hurricane season. • CYN-SAN, 40 ft Piver trimaran ketch from Lahaina, is spending the hurricane season in Tahiti. Owner Bob Hamilton sailed her from Hawaii to Tahiti last April. The cap tain and his crew parted in Papeete and he returned from a four-month visit to Van couver in November. On board also is new crew member Dave Craig of Australia. After the hurricane season, Bob plans to sail Cyn- San to the Cooks. Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and on to New Zealand. • ISLANDIA, 37ft Jim Brown design trimaran cutter from San Francisco, sailed into Tahiti last August carrying Dyanne Miller, 23, and Mike Hoffman, 37, who were married in Moorea in November. The follow ing day a large reception was held at one of the hotels in Moorea with 60 people atten ding, representing some 25 yachts. Their witnesses for the civil ceremony were some Marquesans they had befriended in Ua Huka.
Their plans were to remain in French Polynesia for the hurricane season, then head west for Australia. • REFUGE, 43 ft concrete ketch from Port Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Tahiti in November for a one-year visit. Jean and Paulette Brun and their nine-year-old son Philippe, left their home in New Caledonia in September, 1975, aboard the boat that Jean built himself, and sailed to Port Vila, Fiji, Western Samoa and on to Savarov, where they visited Tom Neal for three weeks before coming to Tahiti. After their visit they plann ed to visit the Marquesas and Tuamotus, then sail back to Noumea via Tonga. • YANKEE GIRL. 32 ft cutter from
Honolulu, carrying owner Bob Parks and Francis Palermo, both of Los Angeles, arrived in Tahiti from Hawaii in November for a several-months visit Built in 1940 in Saybrook, Connecticut, Yankee Girl left Hawaii in August, 1976 for Bora Bora. She was beating all the way and tried to stop at Vostok Island in the Line Group, but her transmission broke down and they drifted away. Later her backstay broke and Bob and Fran jury-rigged the injured boat for the sail into Bora Bora. After the hurricane season ends, they planned to sail west to New Zealand. • SUNDOWNER. 32 ft Dreadnought world cruiser sloop from Victoria, 8.C., left Costa Mesa, Calif, in January, 1975, and sail ed to the Sea of Cortez, then left Sabo San Lucas on June 9, 1976 for the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti, arriving in Papeete mid- September. Owners Warren, June and 6year-old Gordie Boone planned to remain in French Polynesia until March 15, while Gor die attends school. Then they will sail to Hawaii and home. • YELLOW PERIL, 30 ft G.R.P. half-ton cupper sloop built in 1969, and bought in Europe three years ago by owner Rick White, a New Zealander living in Sydney, dropped anchor in Tahiti' in August, for a long visit before returning home to Australia. On board were Rick, New Zealand-born Barry Keys, who joined in Trinidad and Australian Mike Lobley who signed on in England. Rick and Mike, who are in the merchant navy, flew home to Australia to work, and planned to return to Tahiti in February to sail the islands of French Polynesia before heading for New Zealand at a leisurely pace en route home. • MON A LISA 11, 30 ft sloop, arnveo at Cammeray Marina, Sydney, in November, 16 months after leaving Hamburg in Germany with skipper Werner and wife Ingeborg Wommelsdorf. They called at the Canaries, West Indies, Panama, Galapagos, Mar quesas, Tahiti, Fiji, New Hebrides and New Caledonia before dropping anchor at Sydney.
Werner and Ingeborg planned to leave Sydney in January and sail to Auckland, their last port of call. There. Mona Lisa II will be shipped to Germany while Werner and Ingeborg will return by air.
• John Neal, who not long ago spent 18 months cruising Polynesia in the 27 foot Vega sloop Mahina, and wrote a first-rate book about it (Log of the Mahina) expects to be in Australia about March although not in the Mahina. John has formecf himself into the Pacific International Publishing Company to publish the book, and other Polynesian literature. Log of the Mahina has now gone into hard cover, has been produced as a Book of the Month in America, and will have translations in Japanese and Swedish. There is a chance of a French translation.
French seaman Baptiste Goudedranche 54, is readied up to be landed at Niue Island for treatment after falling into the sea from the freighter Zeebrugge two days out of Tahiti on the way to Noumea in Oc tober.
Baptiste staged his third "man over board" performance in more than 30 years at sea when the release mechanism of a lifeboard he was provisioning was ac cidentally activated and he was tossed into the sea, with the lifeboat toppling in after him.
Baptiste suffered severe bruising and was haemorrhaging internally when pick ed up after 20 minutes in the water.
After his ship made an unscheduled call at Niue, Baptiste made a rapid recovery at the island's Lord Liverpool Hospital. The ship picked him up again on its return journey.