Cruising

Yachts

I The next Sydney-Noumea 'acht race is scheduled to itart from Sydney on June 16 lext year. Organisers expect ibout 50 entries and that there vill be at least one all-female ;rew. The last Sydney- Noumea race, in 1977, ittracted 35 starters. » TRITHEAM, a trimaran, jisappeared from the Bay of slands, Suva, in October after a yacht broker, David Lackey, eceived inquiries about it rom a German, Enrique Daehler, Mr Daehler, his wife, 3eb Berthold, and their son, yiarius, who were in Fiji, disap peared about the same time. _ater, a yacht said to resemble he Tritheam, was seen in Solomon Islands but was not ound after Fiji police asked for a check on its identity. Mr.

C.D. Sharma, director of the Fiji Criminal Investigation Department, said Mr. Daehler was wanted by police in sev eral countries to face fraud charges. • EOS, 12.5 m ferro-cement ketch, was a recent arrival in Fiji from San Diego, Acapulco, the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, American and Western Samoa and Tonga.

Eos was built by its owner, a nephew of Jerry Schipper of Union City, California, who took us to task for omitting his nephew’s name from a pre vious reference (July). Unfor tunately he did not tell us his favourite nephew’s name. • ULAH, an Aboriginal name meaning ‘Ripple on the water’, is a 13 m fibre-glass Swanson from Sydney the first hull from the mold. In September, Ulah was at anchor with sister ship SUNBIRD, in the Marovo Lagoon in Solomon Islands. A 1 and Cecily Parks sailed Ulah from Sydney in May 1977 with their daughter, Martine, now aged 12. They made their way

north through the Barrier Reef, then cruised the Louisiade Archipelago to Guadalcanal.

Martine has acquired a mag nificent multi-coloured parrot, Longjohn, which stands watch in the cockpit. On Sunbird are John and Marilyn Morris who sailed from Cairns, Queensland, in August.

Daughters Wendy, 20, and Janet, 17, cruise with their parents during school holidays from James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland. SEALOVE, 9.2 m steel

sloop from Los Angeles, arrived in Vila late September frorfi Fiji. On board were Bob Gibson and Dena Jensen, whose future plans include a stint in Papua New Guinea after extensive cruising through the northern New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. • SCORPIO, an 11.5. m ferro cement cutter-rigged ketch from Kieta, Papua New Guinea, has been built by Keith and Anne Cree. Plans were to sail from Kieta to Rus sel in New Zealand.