Cruising

Yachts

• SWIFT CURRENT, 8 5 m yacht, sank about 48 km west of Lakeba in the Lau Islands of Fiji on July 5 after hitting a reef Owner Barry Burrows, who was sail ing to Samoa from Lautoka, was rescued 36 hours later by the government ship, Kaunitoni. Burrows, by using a "bleeper" beacon on his liferaft, was able to advise the Fiji search-rescue organisation Aircraft "homed" in on the beacon and then called in the Kaunitoni. A few weeks earlier, the Swift Current, carrying Burrows and Gordon Lindsay, while sail ing from Auckland for Lautoka, went aground on a reef off Kadavu after having manoeuvred clear of a ship of about 200 tonnes The yacht's rudder was broken, the mast split and the keel grazed At Lautoka, 170 g (about 6 oz) of filler was required to fill holes after pieces of coral were pulled out • Americans Charles and Helen du Pont, who sailed the Pacific for about six years, have sold their yacht, the ROCERANTE, which now flies the French flag in place of the American flag However, they have not finished with the Pacific. They plan to build a 12-metre trimaran and return to the Pacific in about four years. Their son, Charles jun, however, intends to remain in the Pacific for some time before rejoining his parents at Big Pine Key, Florida. He recently sailed from Noumea in the ULUMBE, which was in the Sydney-Noumea race, to visit Australia for six months, and then go on to New Zealand before going home • EYE THE WIND, 40 m iron-hull sail ing vessel, was in Suva recently during a world tour, carrying six part-owners and an expenses-sharing crew of 21 The skipper is Dick Grono, who resigned an executive position as shipping and ports development officer in Melbourne, to take on the job. With him are his wife, Monika, and sons Nicholas, 10, and Andrew, 9.

The boys keep up with schoolwork by correspondence with a qualified teacher on board overseeing them. After school hours they help in many of the tasks re quired in such a ship. In the 10 months before arriving at Suva Eye the Wind visited Madeira, Barbados, Granada, Guadeloupe, Easter Island, Galapagos, Pitcairn, Papeete, and Pago Pago Next port of call after Suva was Sydney. • PHOTINA, 11.3 m ketch registered in Auckland arrived at Rarotonga on July 2 from Bora Bora with owner-skipper Sandy Watt and his wife, Bernie. They had been cruising for the last five years, spent last year in Brazil, mainly on the Amazon, and were heading home to

Auckland via Suva • FLEUR D'ECOSSE, 8 5 m ketch registered at Inverness, Scotland, arrived at Rarotonga on July 5 from Papeete. On board were owner-skipper Ron Falconer and his wife, Sue. They are sailing west wards, back home, with calls planned for Aitutaki, Niue, Tonga and Fiji, and hope to spend the hurricane season in New Zea land This yacht's name is French for "Flower of Scotland." • REBEL, 12.5 Canadian sloop, arriv ed at Rarotonga in early July from Papeete with owner-skipper David Allar dice and fiancee Barbara Hoshier. The voyage started from Alaska and plans were to call at Niue, Western Samoa and Fiji, • SARABAND 11, 8 2 m Canadian cut ter with owner-skipper Humphrey Jones, and his wife, Claire, arrived at Rarotonga from Raiatea on July 6. They were bound for Niue, Fiji and New Zealand. • HARINUI, 8 8 m cutter, arrived at Rarotonga on July 7 with Kiwis Glen and Frank. They had sailed from Whangarei, NZ, and future plans were uncertain. • KARLOO, 9 1 m sloop registered at Melbourne, arrived at Rarotonga on July 8 with owner-skipper Geoffrey Goodman and his wife, Ruth. They had come from Whangarei, NZ, and planned to visit the northern Cooks after Christine Hall had joined them at Rarotonga • NED KELLY, 12 m catamaran of Australian design, but American-owned, arrived at Rarotonga on July 9 from Bora Bora with Australian Captain Don Marmo, Kevin Devine and Dado. They were bound for the Samoas, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Australia. • YAYA CON DIOS, 12 2 m ketch

rigged, Piver-designed trimaran

registered in San Francisco, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 12

after a rough passage. On board w owner-skipper Glen Alley, his wi Beverley, lan Stapely of Auckland, c Maxamillian, a scarlet macaw well-kno in Pacific ports. The Alleys sailed fr Hawaii to Auckland last December < future plans were uncertain.

• Miyakowasure, 9 1 M Japan*

sloop from Yokohama, arrived Rarotonga from Bora Bora on June bound for Pago Pago with Capt; Masataka Hori and Teruko Hori. • SUNSHINE, 12.2 m steel yawl Chesapeake Bay Oyster Boat line registered in Auckland, arrived Raratonga on June 13 from Whangat after a 17-day passage. The yawl w built at Whakatane, NZ, in 1976 by R. El wood. On board were owner Grahai Maiden who, until recently, ran a pharrm cy in Rarotonga, R. A. Lynch, M. C. Mu tagh and Debbie Gotter Josephine Bac deley, an anthropologist, joined the yacf at Rarotonga, and plans were to call £ Aitutaki, Palmerston, Tahiti and, possibl the U.S. • MATANGI, 11 m sloop registered i Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga on Jun 22 from Auckland with owner-captai Athol Centwell and his wife, Jennife They were bound for Aitutaki, Pago Pag< Tonga, Fiji and home to Auckland. Th Centwells called at Rarotonga in Matani three years previously. • JELLICLE 11, English sloop-rigge folkboat (7.6 m) arrived at Rarotonc from Auckland on June 25 with owne skipper Michael Bailes, Gregory Armc and Dermot Hurly. Future plans were l certain. • I LOVE YOU 11, 16 8 m Americ ketch-rigged catamaran, arrived Rarotonga on June 25 from Tahiti s Mopelia with Captain D. C. Glidden, D.

DJABALO, a 14m steel yawl owned by Dr John Shells and his wife Wendy of Lismore, NSW, lies ready at Pittwater, Sydney, for the midyear beginning of of what was planned as a long cruise around the Pacific Islands. First port of cal was the Solomons, and then the Shells couple planned to go "where the mood takes them."

Glidden, Tiare McMillen and Bin Seegers There were also two Alsatian dogs and a piglet on board. • MATA MOANA, 5.6 m sloop.

Caprice class, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 27 with lone-hander Viliami Fehoko, a young Tongan believed to be the first Polynesian to have made a voyage of this nature single-handed. He left Auckland on June 4 and experienced gales and high winds and turned turtle twice. Luckily Bill, as his English speaking friends call him, was in the cabin on both occasions and he was carrying no sail. Also, luckily, his mast did not snap and there was only slight damage to the spreaders which he re paired later Mata Moana is very strongly built and heavily-rigged and car ries 700 lb of lead on her keel, designed to right the vessel in the event of a caps ize, and the cabin stowage is designed to withstand these mishaps which were no worse than Bill had anticipated Bill is an ex-merchant marine cadet who was trained and taught navigation under Captain Michael Bailes on the Tongan Hifofua. • DEYDREAM 11, Spencer 32 ft sloop, was at Majuro during June. Aboard were owner-builder-skipper, Bud Dey, and children, Kelli (19) and Cal (24) The sloop was built at Savona, British Colum bia and launched from Vancouver, British Columbia in 1970. This voyage, which started in August 1976, is the first long trip for the Deys, and they left Majuro for the long trip back to Vancouver • APOLLO, 50 ft fibreglass ketch, built by Hudson Enterprises in Taiwan and registered out of Hong Kong, has been at Majuro for about two months. Aboard are awner-skipper, Antol (Tony) Toth and crew members, David Everett, Philip Jaravata and Kazimir Drazkowski. The Apollo was launched in December, 1975, and before reaching Majuro, had sailed to the Philippines, Guam, Palau and the Gilberts. Future plans include the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps via Christmas sland. • HALCYON, 37 ft Canadian cutter, arrived at Rarotonga on June 23 with Jim and Barbara Draganovic. Their last port of call was Raiatea and they left for Tonga cn July 6. • GITANA DEL MAR, 40 ft sloop egistered in San Diego, California, rrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on /lay 26 with sails blown out after mcountering a gale two days previously. )n board were owner-skipper Robert ellman, his wife and a 25-year-old girl ;rew member. The cruise started from Guadeloupe Island, Mexico, 19 months >efore. Five months were spent in Hawaii, md other Pacific ports of call were the i/larquesas, Tuamotu and Austral islands.

Jext port of call will be Suva and jrobably American Samoa. • TAANYA, 30 ft overall English :atamaran of James Warren design, from Christchurch, England, limped into Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga, on May 26,

engineless and under jury rig Taanya carried single-hander Shawm Blachford, called "Storm” because of the many he has survived. Shawm, or Storm, an ex journalist, started his cruise from Southampton intending to have a holiday at Gibraltar and return, but instead just kept on going. In September, 1975, he fled from one northern Spanish port to another to escape Biscayan storms, then visited the Canary Islands. He was more than 2 000 miles from French Guyana when he was dismasted by a storm, but he reached that country jury-rigged and repaired the damage there. Next ports of call were the French Grenadines in the Caribbean; then he sailed from Panama to Nukuhiva in the Marquesas and from there to Rarotonga, but 400 miles east of Rarotonga he was again dismasted in a hard squall. In due course he plans to sail to New Zealand to get his worm-eaten keel replaced. • THIRD SEA, 17.1 m ferro cement schooner, arrived in Manila in May from Hong Kong, via Singapore on the way to the Pacific for an indefinite cruise. On board were owner-skipper Harold Stephens and eight crew, who included Off Duty magazine editor, Jim Shaw, and his wife Shaw and his wife left Third Sea at Manila to fly back to Hong Kong.

The schooner is on its first extended cruise. Before leaving for the Pacific, Stephens intended to sail to Cebu in the southern Philippines. • SULA ERRANS, an Auckland sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on Mav 14 from

Papeete with Skipper MacNamara and one crew member. They were bound for Pago Pago. • YANKEE TRADER arrived at Rarotonga on May 12 and left for Pago Pago and New Zealand. The yacht had come from Bora Bora. • MERCATOR, 46 ft Canadian ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on May 16 from Whangarei, NZ, bound for French Polynesia One board were owner-skipper Doug Barron, Jerry Macintosh, Penny Thorpe and Heidi Horn. • MANATHINE, another 46 ft Cana dian ketch, sailed with Mercator from Whangarei to Rarotonga, arriving there on May 17 This vessel, owned and skip pered by Rod Knight, is scheduled to call at French Polynesian islands, then Hawaii and home. With Mr Knight was his wife, Isobel, son Michael and friend Valerie Forsland • NOA NOA, 30 ft double-ender ketch, owned and skippered by American Len Young and crewed by Pamela Ingram, arrived at Rarotonga on May 18 from Bora Bora Next port of call will be American Samoa The cruise started from Florida three years ago and took Len to the Caribbean Islands A storm compelled him to take refuge in Cuba where he was well treated in spite of the warning on his passport telling him to avoid the island Then, in the Canal Zone, his passport was stolen and when attempting to obtain a replacement, Len was beaten up by the immigration officials who then im prisoned him. Later, he called at Cocos Island, stayed five months in the Mar quesas, then visited the Tuamotus and Papeete • DESPERADO, 41 ft Morgan Ber muda sloop registered at Anchorage, Alaska, arrived at Rarotonga on May 19 from Bora Bora bound for New Zealand On board were owner-skipper Tom Monroe, his wife, Jan, and their two teenage daughters Last July they sailed from Anchorage down the "inside passage” to Seattle It took only 22 days to reach the Marquesas from San Diego, "a very fast passage,” said Tom. Subse quent calls were made in the Tuamotus and Tahiti. • ODYSSEY, 11 m Cheby Zee clipper ketch, recently visited Tubuai in the Austral Islands with Ken Lannamann (skipper), Rich McCreedy, Marge Viollette and Aimee Youmans. The ketch was returning to the US after travelling south to NZ via Mexico, Hawaii and Fiji After the Australs, the Odyssey was to call at Tahiti and Hawaii before sailing on to California. She is owned by Jerry Hughes, an American. • HINEWAI, 23 ft cutter, arrived at Rarotonga in early May from Auckland with singlehander David Booth who hoped to call at Aitutaki and Samoa before returning to New Zealand. • YELLOW PERIL, 30 ft French-built sloop registered in Sydney, arrived at Rarotonga on May 5 with owner-skipper

Ricky White, Katherine Picco and Barry Keyes. Mr White bought the yacht in the UK and sailed her from there to Mediter ranean ports in 1975, then to the Carib been Islands, Panama and Costa Rica.

Pacific ports of call were the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands and Tahiti. Plans were to sail to Tonga, Fiji and Auckland. • BOLD SPIRIT, 48 ft Canadian tri maran, arrived at Rarotonga from Whangarei, NZ, on May 12 with owner skipper Keith Sandilands, his wife and their two daughters and son. They will probably call at Tahiti and then Hawaii. • WISHBONE, 41ft gaff-rigged dou ble-ender from Vancouver, owned by French doctor Claude Detouilion, sailed to Hawaii from Bora Bora on March 6, carrying Claude and his crew of Mimi Teauna from Tahiti, Michael Cooke and Claire Hallenbeck of the USA Wishbone was bought by the doctor in Tahiti in 1975 and the past several months have been spent remodelling her.

Fold A

Schooner

With the world of yacht and boat designers and some naval architects still smarting from the success of his first book Small Boats, Mr Philip Bolger is at it again with more offbeat designs and salty wit to delight the lover of small craft.

Called The Folding Schooner and sub titled "and Other Adventures in Boat Designs", the author isn't kidding. The folding schooner is a 9.5 metre affair wich folds in the middle like an elongated oyster to fit on an average-size boat-trailer.

Other designs include a 39 metre, flat bot tom five-masted excursion schooner with suggestions on how to operate it as a business; a 12 metre proa (one outrigger); a small paddle steamer and numerous other dinghies and power boats.

Probably the most interesting designs for the would-be boat builder, who, like mosi home builders, is living close to subsistence level, are the sharpie sailing designs. These are flat-bottom lee-board boats that are sim pie and cheap to build and are in the mair very seaworthy and attractive to the eye.

One of the class racing rules for the folding schooner states, "Boats protested for inade quate structural strength shall be tested one kick from the bare toes of the proteste at a point of his choosing, any resulting damage to be the penalty of the protestee fo the excessive lightness."

Entertaining reading for any boating o yachting enthusiast who is not hide-bound convention.

John Collin .

(The Folding Schooner And Othe

Adventures in Boat Design by Philip C Bolger, International Marine Publishinj Co., 21 Elm Street, Camden Maine, US/ 5U513.50).