Cruising
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Yachts
• SOLO, the 17.3 metre steel yawl, which took yachtsman, navigator and author David Lewis to the Antarctic at the end of 1977, is up for sale. At present, it’s on research and survey work in Torres Strait skippered by Dr Lewis’ son Barry, but by September it will be at the Neutral Bay marina, Sydney. Solo was acquired by the Lewis team 18 months ago for $6O 000, having been sur veyed only a short time before.
Any takers? • FRUITION, 9.1 m sloop registered in Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 14 with skipper R. G.
Thornbury and one crew member. They left for Papeete via Aitutaki on June 21.
• Mandolin Wind Owned
by Canadian Fred Lanauze, went aground on Namalata Reef, Kadavu, late in June.
Lanauze with his crew, Aus tralian Paul Burns, 25, and American Don Cole, 24, managed to refloat the yacht and, with the help of villagers from nearby Driu, get it on to the beach. As the propeller was damaged they considered it would be necessary to have the Mandolin Wind towed to Suva for repairs. • MORSKOUL II sailed from Norfolk Island in early July bound for Auckland, then France. Calling into Norfolk from New Caledonia, Morskoul II had rudder dam age which was repaired before it continued. • ULYSSES, 26.3 m motor yacht was a July visitor to Suva. Owned by Keith Williams, managing director of Seaworld, of Surfers Paradise, Queensland, it is equipped with a wide variety of navi gation aids. On board were three qualified masters, including the owner. Apart from cruising, the Ulysses is used for research and collect
ing specimens for a marine park owned by Mr Williams. • NIHO, 8 metre Canadian sloop arrived at Rarotonga on June 17 from Raiatea with Gary and Kay Urwin. Their voyage started from Montreal in August 1976 and took them down the eastern seaboard of the US, then to the Bahamas and Caribbean Islands. After spending the hurricane season in Puerto Rico they passed through the Panama Canal and called at the Galapagos and French Polynesian islands. They left Rarotonga on June 25 for Niue, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand.
• Passing Cloud. 20.1 M
schooner-rigged timber fish ing vessel registered in Vic toria, BC, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on June 18 bound for Hawaii. On board were owner-captain Brian Walker, his wife Dora, and daughter Tara. Their cruise started from Victoria, BC, on December 4, and they spent two months in San Diego and Mexican ports.
• Aquilon 11, 9 4 M
Canadian sloop registered in Montreal, arrived at Rarotonga on June 23 from Tubuai with single-hander D. Trickey.
• Odyssey, A New
Zealand-owned trimaran, was wrecked in Cakaulevu Reef, about 50 km east of Kabara in Fiji’s Lau Islands. The Fiji Government ship, Kaunitoni, rescued the captain and crew, and salvaged the engine. The captain, Craig Hunter, of Auckland, said he had no intention of salvaging the Odyssey, worth about $2O 000. The Odyssey had set out from Auckland two weeks earlier and had run into bad weather all the way. For more than a week the crew worked in shifts to bail water out of one of the cracked pontoons. The Odyssey was 255 km off course when it struck the reef.
After grounding, the crew sent out a distress call which was picked by an Air Pacific air craft which directed the Kauni toni to the scene. With Hunter as crew were Richard Taylor, David Ward, Raymond Keys, Keith and Morris Johnston and Barbara Balderstone.