Cruising
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Yachts
• Stuvwxyz, 11.6 M
loop, arrived at Rarotonga on /lay 18 from Whangarei, NZ, /ith Jacques Raybaud, his /ife, Michelle, and friend rancois Roujet. They ncountered two gales, prung a leak and put in to larotonga for repairs. They /ere bound for Tahiti where acques had lived for four ears and where his artist wife eld two art exhibitions in 976 and 1977.
• Leedezan, 18.3 M Her
jshoff ketch, arrived at Raro >nga from Auckland on May 1 with Captain Richard rowne and eight crew, bound >r Tahiti. They hope to race in le “clipper” series in onolulu before proceeding to os Angeles.
• Merry Maiden, 15.85
i ketch registered at Boston, lass, and powered by a 110 p diesel, arrived at Rarotonga n May 22 from the French olynesian islands. On board ere Captain Seaton Gras, ick King and Larry Smith, all S citizens. The yacht, owned / Mr Gras’ father, made a six jar circumnavigation with the ras family some years ago id Seaton Gras is now trying lother one with Larry Smith id another crew member ho will join the Merry alden at Rarotonga after fly g from the US. Dick King will ave the ketch in NZ to con ice his education. The cur nt leisurely voyage started im Boston in October, 1976. jveral months were spent in e Caribbean Islands and Pa fic ports of call included the alapagos, Easter and Pit iirn, the Marquesas and the icieties. Next ports of call e to be in Samoa or Tonga, i and New Zealand. • OCARINA was in Suva in 3ril with Mrs Roderica lymon on board and planned head for New Caledonia, Hebrides, Solomons, lursday Island and Darwin, ill Mrs Laymon write to PIM,
please! Your letter was delayed in transit and arrived too late for a reply to your Suva berth.
• Rimuimata, 9 86 M Bri
tish sloop, arrived at Raro tonga from Papeete on May 26 with skipper Richard Turpin and one crew. The yacht left for Nukualofa on June 3. • SUZY-Q, a 12 m Alden ketch built in 1938 at Portland, Oregon, arrived at Tubuai in the Australs at the end of May from New Zealand after a dif ficult 24-day passage against headwinds. On board were skipper lan Keith, of US, and crew Claire Jones, of UK, and Mike Smith, of NZ. The voyage is a delivery job to San Fran cisco. Mike planned to get off at Tahiti. lan and Claire were to continue to Hilo in Hawaii and then on to California. They left for Tahiti early in June. It is their second yacht delivery voyage from New Zealand to San Francisco. They called at Tubuai in November, 1975 with TA’AROA Their own yacht, NUNKI , remains in New Zealand Nunki was at Tubuai for three months in 1974 on a voyage from
California to New Zealand. It is planned to call at Tubuai with Nunki next year.
• Sea Helen, 9 1 M
Canadian steel auxiliary schooner was the first cruising yacht to visit Niue Island in the current season. On board were owners Klaus and Jose.
Sea Helen sailed from
Squamish, British Columbia in 1977, and arrived at Niue via San Francisco, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Bora Bora and Raro tonga. • MIUNA, 10.98 m Aus tralian sloop, arrived at Raro tonga from Papeete, bound for Niue, with Captain Horst Kanngieser and one crew member, on May 28.
Can Anyone
Help?
Mr William Ewing, father of Mercy Ewing, 20, is still keen to get information about I Love You 11, 16.8 m ketch-rigged catamaran, which sailed from Vavau for Auckland on November 18, 1977. He would like to know if a reported sight ing by the Australian ore car rier, Jeparit, at 9 am on December 22, 1977, was a “good sighting”. The Jeparit reported she believed she sighted I Love You II about 150 nautical miles north-west of New Zealand, and headed west.
Mr Ewing considers the only way he can ascertain if this was a good sighting is to find out whether any boats which arrived in Australia during the two weeks after December 22 were about 150 miles north west of New Zealand that morning.
He may be reached at The Ewing Trusts, 140 Broadway, New York, NY, USA, 10005.
Suzy-Q at Tubuai.