Cruising

Yachts

• TALOU, 13.7 m ferro-cement ketch registered at Toronto, arrived at Rarotonga in late August from Tahiti with John and Brenda Taylor The yacht was home-built in Canada by four people working part-time, and was sailed through Lake Ontario and the Erie barge canal to the Hudson River, thence to the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and Panama Pacific ports of call were the Marquesas and Tahiti From Rarotonga, the Taylors planned to call at Niue, Tonga, Fiji and Australia • DAWN TREADER OF LUNE, 12 2 m ketch registered at Lancaster, UK, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti and Bora Bora on August 24 in company with the yacht, GLAYVA from the same English yacht club On board Dawn Treader were partners Colin Clayton and Alf Shiells, plus Colin's wife, Diane, and their children. Penny and Philip Their cruise had taken them to Panama and the Mar quesas before Rarotonga, from which they planned to sail to NZ, Australia and back home to England • GLAYVA, home-built 14 9 m sloop, registered at Lancaster, UK, arrived at Raratonga on August 24 with single hander Tony Hallsworth who planned to sail to New Zealand • PEREGRINE, 113 m cutter of British Gauntlet design, sailed by American single-hander, Albert Steele, aged 62 but feeling years younger and looking it, arrived at Rarotonga on August 1 9 from Papeete He planned to sail to Tonga, then New Zealand Mr Steele was a navigator of American tuna boats for 30 years before he retired from the sea and entered the antique furniture business Now he has retired from business to go back to sea • TINUVIEL, 14 63 m British ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on August 22 with owner-captain Robert Miller and his wife and two children who will be flying from Rarotonga to New Zealand Mr Miller planned to sail to Niue, Tonga and New Zealand • OOMATEE, an American trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga from the Hawaiian Islands on August 14 with Michael and Barbara McCrea and their eight-year-old daughter, Bridget Plans were to call at American Samoa, Suva, and perhaps New Zealand • GHOST RIDER 11, 7 6 m sloop with Steve Dolby, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on September 3 en-route for Sydney Mr Dolby, an Englishman, settled in Australia, built his first yacht in Sydney seven years ago and sailed her to Eng land In England, he built his second yacht and sailed her via Panama and the Mar

quesas His intention was to reach Sydney, swallow the anchor, get married and settle down to the more comfortable but duller life of a landlubber • PETREL, 119 m yacht, arrived in Suva in August from Panama, via the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Niue Island and Vavau She was sailed by American Ken Martin and Australian Jonathon Oatley, both of whom knew nothing about sailing or life at sea before setting out from Panama When leaving Tahiti they were aiming for Rarotonga, but strong winds drove them off course and they made Niue instead After manoeuvring and calculations they reach ed Vavau, and from there they sailed to Fiji using their own judgement, the sun and their sextant They intended to sail to New Zealand, after a refit at Suva, carry ing two other crew, Bruce Adams and Stewart Sheperd • KIALOA, 24 1 m two-masted yacht, was in Fiji in September on the way to Australia, via New Zealand, to take part in the annual Sydney-Hobart yacht race She has been racing off Florida and the US west coast, winning the Los Angeles- Honolulu race earlier this year She is owned by Mr John B. Kilroy She has already won one Sydney-Hobart race • WIND'SON, Sparkman Stevens steel ketch, was a September arrival in Suva from Pago Pago, carrying owner Jim Schmidt and his wife Cheryl, of New York, plus a dobermann dog and a cat After cruising in Fiji they intended to sail to New Zealand and three months later continue on to Australia They rebuilt the Wind'son from a rotting wreck in the Bahamas into a luxury cruiser • CALYPSO, 14 3 m yacht, was a re cent arrival in Suva in the course of a world voyage She is owned by South African Alan Richard, 27, who had three other South Africans, all professional men, with him They are Charles Batchelder 27, Paul Forcyth 29, and Roger Miles 29 He picked them up while passing through the Panama Canal Calypso left Cape Town in January, 1976, as a competitor in the Cape to Rio race and finished 72nd out of 128 com petitors After cruising off South America and in the West Indies, she entered the Pacific, via Panama After Suva she was to sail to New Zealand, Australia and across the Indian Ocean to South Africa • TONDELAYO, 12 2 m ketch registered at Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga from Nukualofa, Tonga, in September On board were owner-skip per Jim Shirer, Bill Hilton, Paul Groothuizen and John Marie Ponti Next ports of call were to be Tahiti and the Tuamotus, the Marquesas, then back to Hawaii

• Golden Opportunity, 9 5 M

British sloop, master N. G. Reeves, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora in August and left after a fortnight for Tonga • MIJO, 8 5 m sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete with R. C. Reid in August and departed after a week for Niue

• FOXY LADY, 8 m sloop, master S. J.

Johnson, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on August 30 and sailed for New Zealand on September 8 • POLACK, 13 4 m ketch with master B. H. Campion, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on September 2 and left six days later for Tonga • MOONSHADOW. 9 8 m yacht with master J. Gallup, arrived at Rarotonga on September 1 from Bora Bora and left for Tonga on September 8 • ALBATROSS, 9 1 m ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Pago Pago on Sep tember 5 • HAUGLINT, a small wooden fishing vessel, arrived at Rarotonga on Septem ber 10 with Mr J. Verbruggen, a Nor wegian Last port of call was Papeete

• PHOTINA, 113 m ketch, completed

a round-the-world cruise when it sailed into Suva on August 30 with Sandy and Bernie Watt She left New Zealand about four and a half years ago and sailed to Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Solomons, Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait The crew sailed in the 1974 Darwin-Dili yacht race and then across the Indian Ocean, calling at several ports Photina capsized off the African coast, and a pause for repairs was necessary She then cruised to South America and the Caribbean, before passing through Panama into the Pacific, where she visited many groups before arriving in Suva Between 1969 and 1972 Sandy and Bernie appeared in PIM s pages several times as they cruised in the Spirit of Barbary through the south-west Pacific

Singlehanded grandmother Ann Gash, of Sydney, in Rarotonga in late September in the 7.7 m folkboat llimo, returning from a single-handed round-trip Sydney-England-Sydney, She expected to be in Sydney in late October after three years cruising the first woman round-the-world singlehander.