Cruising
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Yachts
• FEISTY LADY, 27 ft sloop from Los Angeles, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on December 10 with Conrad and San dra Ramalho. They were still in Rarotonga in late January and are bound for Tonga, • TEQUILA I, 40 ft Auckland sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on January 16 from Papeete and Bora Bora with D’arcy George Whiting, his wife, Mollie, daughter Debra
aged 1 6, and Ann Clucas. They are bound for Auckland. • BOLD SPIRIT, 43 ft Canadian trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on January 18. On board were Keith and Jeanne Sandilands and their children, Kathryn 16, Gwen 14, and Eric 12. They planned to visit Aitutaki, Niue, Tonga and New Zealand. • MIGRANT, 42 ft steel schooner, arrived at Majuro on New Year's Eve with owner-skipper Dick Johnson, his wife, Anita, children Kari (18) and Rick (19), and young friend Luis Mateos aboard. The Migrant was designed and built by Thomas Colvin in Virginia and was launched in 1970. She is junk-rigged, with bright red sails, a white deck and a dark-blue hull and is registered in the US Virgin Islands. The Johnsons are on a
one-year cruise, which started in Seattle, Washington in August. They are on their way to Japan through the island chains of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. • VAIMALUA, Rabaul-registered 39 fi ferro-cement cutter of 13 tons, arrived ai Majuro just before Christmas with owners Dave and Dianne Brown. They will return tc Rabaul after visiting other Marshalls atolls Kosrae (Kusaie) and Ponape. The Browns are Australians but have lived in Papua Nev\ Guinea so long, they consider it a seconc home. Vanalua was built over a 15-montf period in Rabaul and launched in February 1973. The name was given by the loca workers in Rabaul and means "the first one' or "to go ahead", an appropriate descriptor as she was the first ferro-cement boat built ir Papua New Guinea • KETCHUP, a Northstar 80/20 39 ft 1 ins ketch from Toronto, arrived in Tahiti or Christmas Day from the British Virgin Island: where she was purchased in October by Ror Tillotson, 43. Ron and his son Ken, 18, anc Veronica Horner, 24, sailed from the Carib bean through the Panama Canal to the Mar quesas, before sailing into Papeete. His plan: were to leave his boat in Tahiti while he flies home for a few months, then return to con tinue his sail to Samoa and New Zealand. • MISTY, 65 ft ferro-cement ketch own ed by Bob Wieand, 40, of New Jersey, arriv ed in Tahiti on November 18, fron Rarotonga, carrying Bob and crew Izurr Itagaki of Tokyo, Bob built Misty nine year ago in Yokohama and has since sailed t( many islands from Japan to the Philippines Indonesia, South-east Asia, the Americai Trust territories to New Guinea, thi Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga and thi Cooks. In February, 1975 Bob and a charts group were capsized twice during a typhooi between Japan and the Bonin Islands, Then were no injuries suffered even though Mist made 360 degree rolls twice. His plans in elude sailing to Yugoslavia and then returnin' to the Orient. • SAMANTHA ANN, 34 ft Chinoo design sloop from Hawaii is spending th hurricane season in Tahiti. Owner-skippe William Niles, 28, along with Irene Pottin c Canada and Albert Ferguson of Californic sailed from Maui in July to the Tuamotus an Tahiti, arriving in Papeete in October, Bill' plans were to return to Hawaii by way of th Tuamotus and Hawaii. • TYREE, 37 ft trimaran from Honolul arrived in Tahiti on December 24, for her se cond visit. Owner-skipper Charles Burnett c Hawaii and John Fraser of California lei Hawaii three years ago and sailed to th Galapagos and South America, then visitei the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, Guam, Hon< Kong to the China Sea. They also visitei Malaysia and Thailand, Indonesia, Bornec the Philippines and Marshall Islands. The
plans were to remain in Tahiti two months, then return to Hawaii through the Mar quesas. • CASTAWAYS, 70ft 2-masted square-rigged schooner from Los Angeles arrived in Tahiti on December 12, after spen ding five months in the Marquesas. Built and owned by Gene and Kathy Taatjes, CASTAWAYS was launched in 1974 and began her voyage from Los Angeles in January, 1975 Sailing with Gene and Kathy is Gene's nephew, Jeff Taatjes. Gene, an electronics engineer, plans to sail downwind after the season is open. • DECISION, CAL 48ft sloop from Marblehead, Massachusetts, sailed into Tahiti in November for a long visit before continuing her voyage around the world through New Zealand and Australia. Owner skipper Robert Oldham bought his boat in February, 1975 and began his journey from Massachusetts down the east coast of the US through the inland waterway to North Carolina, then by sea to the Virgin Islands and all the Caribbean, on through the Panama Canal to the Marquesas and Tahiti.
Sailing with Robert are Carolyn Osburn, their son Jason (4), her brother Rodger Osburn and Donald Mears, all of California • DEYDREAM 11, Spencer 32 ft sloop from Vancouver, left home August 23 and sailed to the Hawaiian islands, then to the Marquesas and Tahiti, finally arriving in
Papeete on December 23. On board were the Dey family of Bud, Irene, daughter Kelli, 18 and son Calvin, 24, Their plans include sailing to the Cooks, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Marshalls, before going home • CITANA DEL MAR, 40 ft William Garden design sloop from San Diego is in Tahiti with owners Bob and Lois Fellman and crew Danny Cunningham. Their cruise began in 1975 from San Diego and has since
carried them to Hawaii, the Marquesas and Tuamotus. On the first leg of their voyage to Hawaii they broke the spreader arm in a storm and jury-rigged the last 800 miles, still making Hawaii in 19 days. While they are waiting for the hurricane season to finish, Bob and Lois are cruising the rarely-visited islands of Rapa and Mangareva. Later they will sail to the Cooks, Fiji, Tonga and American Samoa • MARTINETTE, 15 metre ferro-cement ketch, which left Vilaon October 19 (RIM, Jan, p 67) with Tony Hodges, wife Joan and daughter Gabriel, crew Kevin Dodds, John Doby and John’s fiancee, to return to England, stranded on the reef at Sue island in the Torres Strait. They had stopped for a swim. At the time of writing, Martinette was still on the reef but the Hodges and crew had managed to salvage their belongings. • KATHENA FAA, 33 ft fibreglass sloop, registered in Germany, arrived at Majuro from Tarawa on December 7, with owners Wilfried and Astrid Erdmann and their four year old son, Kym, aboard. The Kathena Faa was built in England in 1972 and acquired by the Erdmanns in New Zealand. The family is seven months into a cruise planned to last three years. After leaving Majuro,they will sail toother Marshalls atolls, including Bikiniand Likiep. Before sailing south to the Solomons, the Erdmanns will make at least one more stop in Micronesia, at Ponape. When not cruising, the Erdmannsdocharterwork inthe South of France and Wilfried composes articles and books on their travels, the most notable one being an illustrated chronicle of their round-the-world cruisefrom 1969-1972.