Cruising
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Yachts
• KESTREL, 9.5 m Brown A-frame trimaran, carrying Ted Judd, of San Diego, sail ing single-handed, arrived at Tubuai from Tahiti early in February. He left San Diego in April, 1977, and after a brief stop in Hawaii sailed on to Tahiti. He cruised through the Society Islands before going on to Tubuai. On the way back to Tahiti he intended to visit Huahine and the Marquesas.
In 1975 he made a return trip from California to Hawaii in Kestrel. e WIND BIRD, cutter, with skipper William B. Johnson and three crew, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on February 2. They sailed for Auckland two days later.
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Fellestad, a Norwegian, and three crew, arrived at Rarotonga on January 1 from Bora Bora. They sailed a few days later for Auckland.
E Third Sea, 21.3 M
schooner, visited Rabaul re cently under the command of Harold Stephens, from California. Harold, who writes for several South-East Asia publications, planned in the peace and quiet of Rabaul to conclude his book, Asian Portraits. With him as first mate was Don Maclean, an engineer from Montana, US.
Don has been with Third Sea for five years. Harold signs on his crew in various ports, sometimes sailing with as many as eight or nine. His schooner has capacity for 15 tonnes of cargo and accom modation for a crew of 12. • FAITH, 19.8 m motor vessel built in Scotland in 1 936 and registered in Fal mouth, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on February 12. On board were owner-captain Roy Ryan, a New Zealander retuning home from Venezuela with his Japanese wife, Kiyoko, and their daughter, Satani. From Venezuela, Roy Ryan, aged 70. sailed to Caracao, Panama, the Marquesas and Bora Bora. He expected to be
in Auckland about mid-March with his wife, daughter, and motor vessel Faith. • BRAVURA, US sloop-rig ged 14.9 m ocean racing yacht registered at Lahaina, Hawaiian Islands, arrived at Rarotonga from Hobart and Auckland, bound for San Francisco, on February 12.
The yacht had taken part in the last Trans-Pacific race. On board were Captain Arthur Mersereau and five other crew members. Bravura is Spanish for “ferocity”, ‘‘courage’’ and “bravado”.
• Tabaitha,I 3. 71 M
ketch, which has been at Rabaul since December, 1977, is expected to sail in #pril for the Trobriands, South Africa and the US, via the Car ribean. Owners Jim and Carol Moore, from Connecticut, USA, who had their first ex perience of cruising in US coastal waters in 1946, started their present voyage in 1973.
They have been in the Pacific since 1974, spending several months in different areas.
They flew home in January, and were to return to Rabaul in March. Both have developed an interest in amateur radio during their cruising and this helps them to keep in touch with many “yachtie” friends. The Tabaitha is equipped with radar, refrigeration and a diesel generator. The Moores never have to steer as the Tabiatha has wind-vane self steering and an electric auto pilot. • QUEST, IS.BS m motor sailer, owned by Charles H.
Carter, a US lawyer, has sunk in the Adriatic. Mr Carter, his wife Vann, daughter Charla, Evan Evans and Lisa Blandi, both 14, were on board and were saved. The Carter family had been sailing round the world in Quest since 1971 and planned to stay at sea for another four years. Quest was in Sydney during the 1974 Pacific hurricane season, after having cruised through Micronesia and several South Pacific groups. After leaving Sydney she sailed east, aim ing for Tahiti, then back through Tonga Fiji, and New Caledonia to the Australian coast, thence north and west to Singapore and beyond.
Charla Carter who left Quest for a short time took a “temp’s” job in Sydney as PlM’s receptionist. She then intended to fly from Australia to rejoin her family in Greece.