Yachts

Cruising

• I LOVE YOU 11, 16 8 m American ketch-rigged catamaran, late in January was well overdue at Auckland, after having sailed from Vavau in Tonga on November 18. On board were owner Donald Glidden and 20-years-old Mercy Ewing, of Noroton, US.

A search operation from New Zealand failed to locate I Love You 11. An Australian ore car rier, the Jeparit, reported that on December 22, about 9 am, she believed she had sighted I Love You II about 150 nauti cal miles north-west of New Zealand, and headed west.

The catamaran has an orange hull with 15.24 m yellow masts. Glidden is reported to have disappeared before for several months. Mercy’s father would be pleased to hear from anybody who may have seen or heard of I Love You II since November 18. He may be reached at Box 3412 Noroton CT, 06820, US. • KALAIS, 21.34 m steel <etch, in French Polynesia for he hurricane season, has a mercy mission to its credit.

Owners Vic and Prisca Ware }uier, of Belgium, volunteered o carry a gravely-ill infant rom Raivavae to Tubuai vhere there was a doctor and rom where the infant could be lown to hospital in Tahiti. The nfant’s father and a nurse vent with them for the trip from Raivavae to Tubuai. Kalais lad arrived at Raivavae two veeks earlier from New Zea and, after a three-month

voyage. They left Belgium nearly six years ago, and after cruising in the Atlantic passed through Panama Canal. They stopped in the Marquesas, Society Islands and Tonga on their way to NZ, where they worked for a year. In Raivavae they are preparing Kalais for ocean sailing again at the end of the hurricane season.

• Mata Moana, 5.5 M

long boat, was a recent arrival in Tahiti from Auckland, carry ing owner-builder, Viliami Fehoko, 23, of Tonga, who sailed single-handed. Viliami left Auckland in May, 1977.

He had an early mishap when the rudder was damaged only 32 km from Auckland, but car ried on. The Mata Moana capsized twice in bad weather before she reached the Cook Islands.

• White Cloud, Dulce

Setterfield has written to PIM for help. She is anxious to contact a 32-metre Norwegian schooner, White Cloud, prob ably flying the Canadian Flag.

She had an appointment with the skipper at Apia but failed to make contact with White Cloud. If anyone can give her any information as to the whereabouts of the yacht, please write to her at 5016 21st Avenue NE Seattle, Wa

98105 Usa.

• MINAMI ATUA, a 9 8 m Hartley-design ferrocement yacht, is now sailing through Micronesia after spending four months cruising around Fiji and Tuvalu. Jon Brett, the owner, and his crew, Bev Johns, Yoshimi Kazahaya and Rog McNaughton are finding that Pacific Islanders’ hospitality is causing them to get way behind schedule.

However, they have conve niently avoided two tropical cyclones (Steve and Mary) due to delayed departures.