Cruising

Yachts

• KAWAMEE, 60 ft steel-hulled ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Penrhyn on March 25 with Rocknee Johnson (captain) and nine crew, seven Americans and two Canadians. The cruise started from Honolulu and an emergency call was made at Penrhyn to repair the starter motor for the diesel engine after it had been damaged by salt water. Plans were to call at Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete and the Marquesas before returning to Honolulu. • CYN SAN, 40 ft Canadian ketch-rigged trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora and Tahiti in late March with owner Bob Hamilton, Don Carr, Stephen Blum, John Atherton and Rene Kunzler They will sail to Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Hawaii, then home to Canada. • DEYDREAM 11, 32 ft Canadian sloop registered in Vancouver, arrived at Rarotonga on February 28 with Budd Dey, his son, Calvin, and daughter Kelli. Their cruise started from Vancouver Island and took them to the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesas and Tuamotus, most of which they called at. Last ports of call were Papeete and Bora Bora and they were bound for Tonga and Fiji. • RAINBIRD, 45 ft sloop registered in Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga on March 1 from Papeete with Captain Martin Farrand, his wife, Christine, and Allan and Irene Coubray —all New Zealanders. The yacht is on a delivery voyage from Miami to her owners in New Zealand and plans were to sail direct from Rarotonga to Auckland. • ESCAPADE with her five French crew returned to Noumea in mid-February after two months cruising in the Solomon Is lands. At Vanikoro in the Solomons, the men went diving around the area where La Perouse’s frigates Astrolabe and Boussole sunk in 1788, but said they saw only two anchors.