Cruising

Yachts

• SPACEITY an American trimaran visiting Apia in July, lost its dinghy when children found it apparently aban doned, on the beach. Acting on the adage ‘finders keepers’ the children carried it away and it was only after a long police search had been made that the dinghy was located lying alongside a fale (Samoan house) in a village. Police loaded the dinghy on their truck and drove back to Apia where the owners were quite happy not to press charges.

Spaceity (pronounced ‘space city’) left Apia in August. • After 35 days without wind, 15.5 m HEIVA made it to Moen in the Truk Islands, reports the Micronesian News Service.

MNS says Heiva was on its way from the Philippines to Solomon Islands in July when it ran into a floating mass of

logs making it almost imposs ible for the crew to enter the water to spearfish for food.

After four weeks supplies had run dangerously low. The Heiva, registered in Nantes, France, is captained by Chris tian Guillian. His crew, num bering four, were Reginald Christensen and Randall Pope of Australia, and Randall and Johanna Hillhouse of Canada.

After enjoying Truk Island hospitality, Captain Guillian and crew continued to Solomon Islands and then Australia.

• Sunchaser 111, 17.7 M

American yacht, arrived in Suva late in July from Tonga, on a round-the-world voyage.

The yacht left the US west coast in February, having called earlier at the Society Islands and the Cook Islands. • CHROCLE, a UK yacht, was reported a total loss after running aground on reef at Penrhyn, Cook Islands, in July. It was on a voyage to Hawaii. On board were master

Edward Nicholas Lowe, 38, of England, and Americans Robert V. O’Brien and Carl J.

Carlson.

• Fair Lady, 113 M

American cutter, arrived at Rarotonga from Raiatea on June 20 with owner-captain Victor Carter, his wife Arlyn, and their four-year-old son, Sean. The Carters are on a cir cumnavigation and have called at Mexican ports, the Marquesas and the French Polynesian islands. Plans are to visit Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and a small yacht har bour about 60 miles north of Brisbane, then home to San Francisco where Fair Lady is registered. Victor Carter was born in Britain and was a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain. • CARCHARIAS, 16 metre sloop registered in Poole, UK, arrived at Rarotonga on June 16 from Auckland with owner captain John Grey, his wife Peggy, son Randy and school friend, Chris Pierce. Mr Grey bought the yacht in England eight years ago and sailed her to Turkey where he worked as an engineer for the Turkish Government for AVz years be fore retiring. The name of the yacht is Turkish for one of the big white shark family. After leaving the Mediterranean he and his wife sailed to the West Indies, through the Panama Canal and to Hawaii, then home to Vancouver, Their pre sent cruise took them back to Hawaii, then the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti and Bora Bora. They left Rarotonga on June 24 for both Samoas and Fiji. • WHYAC, a Fortune 30 Canadian cutter registered at Victoria, BC, arrived at Raro tonga in mid-June with Peter Molnar, Edith Moser and Pauline Waelti. Last port of call was Papeete and they were bound for Niue, Tonga, Fiji Samoa, then back to Tahiti, weather being suitable.

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Skipper Bill Ashley's Julie J which arrived in Honiara in August