Yachts
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Cruising
• Sarabande, 11 Rn
A/oollocott ketch built in New Zealand, at present in the /Vest Indies, may return to Pacific cruising. The owner, Dr 3. Diethelm, writing to PIM rom Antigua where, inciden ally, he received PIM for Movember and December, 1977, said that with his wife md children he spent several /ears in SE Asia, the Indian Dcean, the Seychelles, Arabia md the Mediterranean before jailing for the Caribbean and lopefully, for the Pacific. The >arabande has been Dr Diethelm’s home for about 11 /ears. He set out on his cruis ng from Sydney in 1967, eturning in 1970 and setting )ut again in 1973. The last ime Sarabande’s movements vere recorded in PIM was in 1973. ‘‘lt was indeed a thrill to )e reading PIM again and cer ainly makes one feel close to he Pacific again,” Dr Diethelm wrote.
• Boomerang, 15 24 M
Swedish ketch registered in kSkero, arrived at Rarotonga n May 10 from Raoul Island, le first yacht to visit that iso ited NZ weather station for ix months. Previous ports of all were Sydney and Lord lowe Island. On board were 'er W. Hallin (master), Ken lallin, Urban Svedung, Lars iaether and Bob Fox. Next orts of call were to be Bora lora, Tahiti, Pitcairn and Eas -3r Islands and Panama, fol ded by the Atlantic crossing, nd then back home to iweden.
• Mata Moana, 5 6 M
loop, Caprice class, arrived t Rarotonga from Papeete nd Moorea on May 8 with ongan owner-skipper Viliami ehoko and one girl crew lember. Viliami is an ex lerchant marine cadet who /as trained and taught navi ation under Captain Michael lailes in the Tongan lIFOFUA, and was in Rare- Dnga with MATA MOANA in
June last year (PIM, Sept 77, p 75), having sailed single handed from Auckland. • Also in Rarotonga in early May were EOS, an American ketch registered in Portland, Oregon; IDIOT WIND, a Canadian sloop registered in Vancouver which arrived from Papeete with Peter Powell and one crew, and ROSIII, 6.75 m German sloop which arrived from Moorea with single hander Mr A. F. W. Volzer.
• Wayward Wind And
SHEARWATER, both staysail schooners and each 19.8 m on deck and 25.3 m overall, were visitors to Tubuai in April.
On board Wayward Wind were Walter and Carolyn Kiefer and son John, Bruce Lussin, of Canada, who joined as a member of the crew in Tahiti, and guests Annie Levy and her daughter Rava, who also joined the yacht in Tahiti.
Wayward Wind left Newport, California in June, 1977, for the Marquesas, then to Ran giroa, Tahiti and the Leeward Group of the Society Islands, then back to Tahiti before leav ing for Australia. Shearwater also started her cruise from Newport, but in November, 1977, and visited the Marquesas, Ahe, Rangiroa and Tahiti. On board where she arrived at Tubuai were Ernie and Carrie Minney and their young children, Ernie and Alice, Chip Cahill, a crew member, who had been on board since Shearwater left California, and LaVonne Hilschner, a retired school teacher, also of California, who joined the yacht in Tahiti.
Both yachts spent some time at Taravao Peninsula, Tahiti, then sailed together to Rurutu, west of Tubuai, where Annie Levy has relatives, then to Tubuai where they stayed for a week before returning to Tahiti. Plans were for the Shearwater to sail to the Lee ward Islands, including Bora Bora, before continuing west to New Zealand. Future plans of the Wayward Wind were uncertain.
• Mele Makani, 12.8 M
ketch registered in Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga on April 23 from Bora Bora with skip per R. A. Colven and two crew. • GISELLE, 37m cutter
registered at Houston, US, arrived at Rarotonga on April 23 from Bora Bora with James Parker and two crew. • CRABBY, 16.76 m motor yacht registered in Coos Bay, Oregon, US, arrived at Raro tonga on April 25 from Papeete with owner-skipper B.
C. Crabtree and his wife, Alex andra. They left Oregon last June on a leisurely world cruise and when at Los Angeles the yacht acted as chief communications vessel for the 1977 Trans-Pacific yacht race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The vessel is equipped with two radar sets,two Ham radios, one UHF radio, two high-seas band radios, a citizen band radio and two direction finders.
Crabby also has an auto-pilot and a water distilling plant which can produce 90 litres of fresh water an hour. Ports of call included Christmas Island, the Line Islands of Malden, Starbuck, Vostok, Caroline and Flint and the French Polynesian islands. Next port of call will be Pago Pago.
• Witchcraft, 10 66M
American sloop, also arrived at Rarotonga on April 25 from Raiatea with Dr Art Biehl and two crew. Witchcraft is a world-famous racer in the one ton class. Brisbane will be the next port of call. • XANGO, a French ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on April 28 bound for New Caledonia. On board was skipper M. Blanc and one crew member.
• Moonshadow Iv, A
Westsail 9.75 m cutter rig, with Jim and Verna Gallup, arrived May 5 at Tubuai after a fast
16-day voyage from New Zealand. They are on a return trip to Canada which they left over a year ago on a cruise through French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga, to New Zealand: They built their yacht from a kit at their home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was trucked to the Pacific Coast and registered at Vancouver, BC. They sailed for Raivavae on May 9, arriving the following day. From there they will leave for Tahiti, the Tuamotus, Hawaii and Van couver.
• Epaminondas, A 13.71
m Herreshoff ketch (Mobjack) with owner/builder Rick Cran dall of New Zealand was at Raivavae in May. Also on board were crew members Dennis Marra and James Gandy, both of NZ, Peter Ward of the UK, and Hank Grimshaw, the navigator, from Hawaii. Epaminondas had made an 18-day passage from New Zealand to Raivavae.
Pot in yacht
An American yachtsman, stopping over in Suva for maintenance and repairs to his boat, was arrested by the police and charged with having marihuana in his pos session. The American, Gary Edward Danielson, 30, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty, but said he had no idea where the marihuana or pipes containing marihuana had come from.
The magistrate, Mr Kenneth Moore, fining Danielson $l5O, said he was concerned with tourists bringing drugs into Fiji with them. However, there was no allegation of any sort that Danielson was a pusher.
Shearwater (left) and Wayward Wind at anchor at Tubuai.