Cruising
pp. 73-75 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
To Yachties
A welcome and a helping hand has been extended to cruising yachtsmen visiting the Sydney area, by the newly-formed Sea Rescue organisation.
Though primarily formed as a rescue organisation, with voluntary patrols operating out of Botany Bay every weekend and public holiday, Sea Rescue will be happy to extend help and hospitality to visiting sailors.
On patrol days Sea Rescue monitors radio frequencies are 27.88 and 27.90 mHz or yachties may contact Max Allen on Sydney 668 9967 or John Collins —e- PIM. • GRACE, 1 1 m sloop from Los Angeles, arrived in Huahine in April from the Marquesas. Owner-builder-skipper Joe Parks left Los Angeles on Feb 1 with his brother Dave and Nick Kalionzes, sail ing to Huahine to join YANKEE GIRL, owned by another brother, Bob Parks.
Joe, his father and brothers built Grace in two years. They planned to sail to Rarotonga in June and return to Los Angeles via Hawaii. • HOKULE'A, 13.1 m long catamaran from Hawaii sailed into Papeete on May 24 after a fast 11-day trip from Kona.
Carrying owner-builder Joe Cabell, Randy Coon and Woody Cox, the Hokule'a left Hawaii in near-gale weather. She sailed about a quarter of the way in winds of five knots or less, and used the motor be tween winds. Cabell christened his unusual cat before the more famous canoe of the same name was finished Cabell plans to sail in French Polynesia for six months before returning to Hawaii. • JOLLY TAR, 9.8 m Atkins cutter from Hawaii, carrying the Woodrum family of Lon, Sue and Casey, BV2, has been in French Polynesia since Novem ber, 1976, on her second trip to those is lands. On this trip she has visited the Australs and Raivavae. After cruising in the Tuamotus and the Marquesas they in tend to return to Hawaii in October • LADY LEE, 13.1 m Atkins ketch from San Diego, which left home in February, was in the Marquesas and the Tuamotus before arriving in Tahiti in mid- May. Owners Truman and Jeanne Schmidt, who had no immediate plans for the future, were waiting for friends and their family to join them • NOA NOA, 9.8 m Rhodes design Bermuda-rigged ketch double-ender from Miami spent March in Tahiti before visit ing other Society Islands en route to Rarotonga and Samoa. Lynn Martin, "Foot” Young and Pamela Ingram bought the 42-year-old ketch three years ago.
They sailed from Miami for the Bahamas,
but a storm forced them to Cuba After cruising in the Caribbean, Noa Noa spent a year at Panama, then sailed for French Polynesia, minus the motor, which they got rid of in Panama • PAPILLON, 9.4 m Jim Brown sea running trimaran, which left San Diego in January, 1976, has been in French Polynesia since June, 1976 Owners Claes and Lillemor Nilson, from Stockholm, planned to sail to Suwarrow, Samoa and NZ • SEAFORTH, 1 1 m Angleman sea witch, from San Diego, limped into Papeete in mid-May with two-thirds of the mizzen mast missing and the main mast broken and split down the centre Owners Al and Joan Cox encountered a squall when about 960 km north-east of the Marquesas Winds gusted to 25 knots All the damage occurred in the squall They drifted to Hivo Oa, and then jury rigged Sea Forth for the trip to Tahiti • VERONIKA, 10 7 m steel sloop-rig ged double-ender from Stuttgart, Germa ny, left Tahiti at the end of May, after a year in French Polynesia, for Niue, Vavau, Fiji and New Zealand Gerd and Veronika Steidle, with cocker spaniel Bobo, bought their boat in Capetown in 1973 and sail ed the next year for Brazil They sailed 1 60 km up the Amazon and cruised in the Caribbean for a year before passing through the Panama Canal into the Pacific • WANDERLURE, 9 8 m schooner from Long Beach, California, with Art Hammond sailing single-handed, was in Bora Bora in May before sailing for Pukapuka, Suwarrow, Palmyra and New Zealand Art left Panama in January, 1976, sailing to the Cocos Islands, Galapagos, Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti After cruising in the Society Islands fie sailed to the Cook Islands, then returned to French Polynesia to visit a number of is lands seldom called at by yachties These included Rapa, Mangareva and Hao, which is a French military base • WINDWAGON, 15 25 m ketch rigged auxiliary cruising yacht from Los Angeles, which spent several months in French Polynesia, had Rarotonga, Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia next on her itinerary in the course of a world tour Owners Ron and Wendy Burke, who left home in November, 1976, visited the Marquesas before arriving in Papeete.
They hit the fringes of a cyclone, which broke the mizzen boom and knocked the dinghy overboard Windwagon was built in 1938 and was wrecked on a reef in Rarotonga in 1967 Ron and* Wendy bought the hull in 1975 With the Burkes are their son, Dustin, 2, Ron's brother Barry, Joe Jacaruso, of Los Angeles and Paulo Montaldi, of Milan. • MAVEI MARIE, 50 ft yawl, Rose de sign and built in Germany in 1 953, arrived at Rarotonga on June 3 from Bora Bora On board were owner-skipper Willy Binsfeld, his wife, Herta, their two
daughters and son and friend Barbara Lindberg. Plans were to call at Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and be in New Zealand for Christmas • EROS, 45 ft sloop registered at Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 4 bound for Aitutaki and Fort Lauderdale, US. On board were owner-skipper Maurice Hornsby, who is an Auckland shipbroker, and five crew.
They left Rarotonga on June 9. • KAILA 27 ft cutter registered at Auckland and with skipper-owner Robin Hooson and his wife, Lesley, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on June 5.
They intended to call at Samoa and Fiji, then Whangarei, New Zealand: • CARAVELA OF EXE, 41 ft yawl; two years out of Britain and on a leisurely cruise round the world, arrived at
Rarotonga on June 9 from Papeete. On board were owner-skipper Ted Lyme and his wife, Mary. They had called at the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands and planned to visit Tonga, Fiji and Auckland. • DECISION, 48 ft American sloop with owner-skipper Robert Oldham and friends Roger and Carolyn Osborne, arriv ed at Rarotonga on June 6 from Bora Bora. They planned to call at Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and New Zealand, • SCHEHERAZADE, 38 ft Australian sloop with Peter Bremer-Kamp and wife, Maya, and crew left Rarotonga for Fiji and intervening islands on June 9. • DJABALO, 46 ft steel yawl, owned by Dr John Sheils and his wife Wendy, planned to leave Australia about mid-1977 to cruise in the Pacific Islands, with the
Solomons as the first port of call, and then "where the mood takes them". Dr Shiels was a surgeon at Lismore in northern NSW.
He has Island connections in that he is a brother of Mrs Helen Fenbury, who, for many years was a resident of PNG with her late husband, David. • SHEARWATER 11, 34ft Australian ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on May 30 with John and Tony Syme and Danny Mathews. They planned to sail to Tonga and New Zealand. • DEBORAH ANN, 43 ft Choy Lee fibreglass ketch, anchored at Tubuai on April 29 from Raivavae and New Zealand.
It departed on May 6 for Tahiti. On board were Peter Rogers (captain) and his wife Doreen, Pat Hurlburt, and Zanzie and Rae Paxton, all Canadians. • DRYAD, 45 ft wooden yawl, 39 years old, purchased Virgin Islands. Arriv ed on May 6 from New Zealand, with Dick and Marty Pratt and their young daughter.
It departed on May 9 for Raivavae and Tahiti. Dick had earlier cruised to Tahiti in 1960, • TOERE, 43 ft steel ketch. She was lost for eight days after leaving Raiatea for Tahiti No sextant aboard.
Owner/captain Jean Bori and crew, Jean Benazech, both officers in French military at Tahiti Bori built yacht in France and had it shipped to Tahiti. They were helped by Don Travers to anchor the yacht in the most secure location at Tubuai He will later probably help them to sail it to Tahiti. • MAKARETU, 45 ft steel ketch from Sydney, arrived at Tubuai on May 14 from Auckland, New Zealand, after 1 6day voyage. Captain Brian Marriott, wife Carol, and children: Cherie aged seven, Deanne, five, and Belinda, one year. All Australians. With them are Susan Gratham (New Zealand), and Conrad Johnson (American). They planned to leave on May 20 for Raivavae, then Tahiti, ‘and leisurely cruising back across the South Pacific towards Australia during the next few years. • MIKENO, owned by Frenchman Georges Lagarrique, went aground on a reef near Nukulau Island outside Suva on May 26. Lagarrique was on a round-the world tour. He was looking for advice as to whether his yacht could be saved. • SULA ERRANS, 31 ft sloop from Auckland, carrying owners Franc and Con MacNamara, planned to leave French Polynesia in April for the homeward trip via the Cooks, Samoa and Fiji, reaching New Zealand in October. Franc and Con bought her four years ago and spent two winters in Tonga and Fiji, then sailed to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia and arrived in Tahiti last October. Since that time they have been cruising the Society Islands. • TEMPO, 53 ft Spencer ketch from Coos Bay, Oregon, left San Diego lasi September for the South Seas, calling a 1 the Marquesas and Tuamotus before ar riving in Tahiti on January 7, 1977. Own
ed by Jane and Wally Beck of Albuquer que, New Mexico, Tempo, which means "a guide to the art of living" features a washer and spin dryer, refrigerator and deep-freeze, workshop, ham radio and diving tanks. Her interior is teak rubbed with a Danish blonde stain. Their plans will keep them in French Polynesia through July, when they expect 13 peo ple from their family to visit them for two or three weeks. After that they will sail for Fiji and New Zealand or to the New Hebrides. • TOPAZ, 50 ft Piver trimaran from Lahaina, Hawaii, left Honolulu last Sep tember for a 27-day sail to Papeete. Sail ing on the ketch-rigged 27 ft beam yacht with six staterooms were co-owner and captain Archie Taylor and wife Diane, co owner Tom Overton and wife Patti and crew Kevin Horan, Kristina Prater and Carl Hoffer. They have spent the past several months cruising the Society Islands.
After a haul-out they will head back for Hawaii. • WIND'SON, 20 ft Sparkman Stevens steel ketch from Grand Cayman in the Caribbean, sailed into Tahiti on April 17 after an easy sail that began in Savannah, Ga on January 7 and took owners Jim and Cheryl Schmidt of New York, their crew of two brothers Donald and James Bostwick of Savannah, their doberman Shasy and their Kitty Kat to the Bahamas, Caymans, Panama to the Galapagos, on to the Marquesas and Tuamotus. They planned to stay in French Polynesia for several months.