Cruising
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Yachts
• TALOU, 15 m ferro cement ketch from Toronto (see PIM, Oct, 1977) with owner-skipper John Taylor and wife Brenda was on her way at the end of April to Samarai and other PNG ports after spending a few days at Lizard Island, off Cairns in Queensland. By June the Taylors hope to be on their way to South Africa. They spent two months in Aus tralia.
• Sansouci, 11M
American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on April 9 from Bora Bora with owner-skipper Gerard Henry and Linda Fos ter. Mr Henry is on a circum navigaton and his next ports of call will be Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides and Port Moresby.
• Sea Helen, 914 M
Canadian schooner, arrived at Rarotonga on March 29 from Bora Bora with Captain Klaus and friend. They left for Niue on April 13.
• Chandalar, 10 45 M
American sloop with single hander Alan David arrived at Rarotonga on April 9 from Papeete, bound for Auckland. • RANGER, Canadian ketch with owner-captain G.A.
Williams, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on April 6, bound for Nukualofa.
• Takutotem, 12 5 M
American sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on April 13, bound for Tonga. On board were owner-skipper Verne Elliott, his wife Sheila and children Stuart, 15, Shane, 12 and Lisa, 11. The yacht is registered at Sitka, Alaska, from where the voyage started and plans are to visit New Zealand, Japan and the Aleutian Islands before return ing home to Washington. • CON TINA, American CAL 13.9 m ketch-rigged motor sailer registered at Newport Beach, arrived at Rarotonga on April 16 from Tahiti. On board were owner captain Dr Peter Eastman, his wife, Betty, their son Peter and Mark Mowery, They had called at the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands and
planned to visit Aitutaki, American Samoa and prob ably New Zealand and Aus tralia.
• Manukura, An
American yacht, arrived at Butaritari in the Gilbert Islands early in March with skipper Richard Musick and a crew of three. The yacht reached safety after surviving a storm which badly damaged the rrtest and riggings.
• Runestaff, 9 M Aus
tralian cutter which arrived at Rarotonga late last September left on April 6 for Aitutaki and Tahiti with owner-skipper builder, lan Hancock and three crew. • TUTOKO, 15.55 m British cutter-rigged catamaran, arrived at Rarotonga on April 5 from Raiatea. On board were owner-skipper John Martyn Roberts, Valerie Roberts, George and Margaret Smith, and children Martyn and Fina Roberts and Steven and Nicholas Smith. They left on April 11 for Tonga and Auckland. • LADY LEE, 12.11 m ketch registered in Los Angeles, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on April 15 with Truman Schmidt (captain) and Jean.ne Schmidt. Next port of call will be Pago Pago, American Samoa.
• Maudi Marie, 15 24 M
yawl, arrived at Tubuai in the Austral Islands in mid-March after a 16-day voyage from New Zealand, carrying Willy and Herta Binsfield and their children, Mike, 13, and Susi 12. They were on their way home to Half Moon Bay, California, which they hoped to reached by June 1. They planned to visit Makamo in the Tuamotus, the Marquesas and Hawaii. They had left Half Moon Bay in June, 1977, and visited the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Niue, Samoa and Fiji before arriving in NZ.
It’s a race from
Sydney to Suva
About 20 entries are expected for the second Sydney-Suva yacht race which will start from Middle Harbour, Sydney, on June 4.
The race will be held in three divisions the International Offshore Racing division, a division for yachts not up to that class and given an arbi trary handicap, and a cruis ing division for yachtsmen who plan to cruise later in the islands.