Yachts
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Cruising
PlM’s roving correspondent, Jimmy Cornell, has been ‘cycloning’ with wife Gwenda and children Doina and Ivan in New Zealand, their ketch AVENTURA resting up in Whangarei while they have been looking the country over.
He recently returned to Whan garei to check out the inter national mix which headed there to avoid the South Pa cific cyclone season; • DUEN, a traditional Nor wegian fishing vessel regis tered in the American Virgin Islands, on its second Pacific voyage which started in May last year. Duen (meaning
‘dove’), before reaching Whangarei, visited ports in French Polynesia, Suvorov in American Samoa, and Vavau and Tongatapu in Tonga.
Plans are to head either for Fiji or Micronesia, perhaps both.
On board are three gener ations: owners Albert and Dotty Fletcher, their son Toby, and daughter Vicky with hus band Jim Camp and son James. Built of pitch pine in 1942, Duen is a topsail ketch measuring 15.5 m on deck with a 6 m bowsprit.
• Incognito, An 11.6 M
sloop from Santa Barbara, California, built in Finland 31 years ago. Steve and Ruth Abney left home in 1974 for an open-ended cruise that first took them to Panama and
Costa Rica, where they spent two years working. In 1976 they spent nine months in French Polynesia before push ing on to the Cooks, Niue, Tonga before spending the 1977-78 cyclone season in New Zealand. Now they are back in New Zealand after spending most of 1978 cruis ing to the Kermadecs, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Their plans now are to sail to Papua New Guinea. Forwarding: Marsh, 5 Bellevue Rd., Mt Edten, Auckland, NZ. • GALATEA IV, a 14.5 m cut ter from Vancouver, BC, Canada, which retired couple Bob and Marg Miller left in May last year bound for the Marquesas, Tuamotus, So ciety and Cook Islands, then Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand.
This year they intend to sail to Fiji, then on to the New Hebrides, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
Mostly Bob and Marg sail their large yacht all alone but for the first part of this year’s cruise daughters Nancy and Beth will be with them.
• Chantalain A 10.3 M
French cutter registered in Noumea with Patrick and Kay Ifrah on board. A Morocco born Frenchman, Patrick worked for a while in New
Caledonia as a teacher while New Zealand-born Kay worked as a nurse. Last year they cruised in the New Hebrides, Chesterfield and Loyalty Islands. Now they plan to sail to Fiji, back to New Caledonia, then north to the New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and eventually to Japan. • MARUFFA, a 20 m yawl from Boothbay, Maine, US, on a world cruise with owner Katherine Greene, skipper Stephen Sewall, Michael and Stephen McDonnel, Sheila Viele, David Batchelder, Alex Logan and Michael Gillming as crew. Built in 1935, it was
rather neglected for a while until its present owner took over in 1977, bringing the Maruffa back to its original splendour. After transiting the Panama canal, Maruffa sailed to the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. Australia and Papua New Guinea are on this year’s programme. For warding: Mark Sewall, Booth bay, Maine, 04537, US • MACUSHLAH, a 9.3 m gaff ketch from Honolulu, in the Kittywake class, designed by Charley Davies. Owners Dave and Kay Malseed left Califor nia in 1970, cruising down the Central American coast to Panama, where they spent two years working in the Canal Zone. In 1977 they set off again, calling at the Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, Tuamotus, So ciety and Northern Cook Islands, American Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand. This year they plan to sail to Fiji, after which their plans are somewhat fluid.
• Tarrawarra, An 11,6 M
sloop from Melbourne. It spent 1978 cruising from Australia to Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia and finally New Zealand and plans a return to the tropics soon. Four enthusi asts built the steel boat over a period of 414 years but two of them were left behind because of family commitments. The other two, Kim Proud and Tony Robinson have promised to see the world on behalf of those left behind. Steve Dunn is crewing. • RISING SUN, a 10 7 m sloop from Sidona, Arizona, which left Los Angeles in July 1977 bound for Hawaii where Dan and Denny Bache-Wiig spent a year replenishing the kitty before carrying on to both Samoas, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. This year they intend to sail to New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and poss ibly Japan.
• Endeavour A 12.5-
metre fibreglass sloop from San Diego, owned by Doug and Sandy Thompson, arrived at Tubuai in the Austral Islands writes Don Travers. The Thompsons had brought a gravely ill baby, accompanied by a nurse and the infant’s mother, from Raivavae. From Tubuai the baby was flown to Tahiti where it recovered. An almost identical incident oc curred about a year before with a Belgian yacht, KALAIS (RIM March 1978). After leav ing San Diego in May last year the Thompsons visited the Marquesas, Tuamotu and So ciety Islands before reaching the Austral Islands. The Endeavour was the first yacht to call at Tubuai since June 1978. It returned to Tahiti in January.
Duen... on second Pacific cruise
The Abneys and Port hole... PNG next
Chantalain’s crew... working trip
Maruffa... Australia bound
Rising Sun crew... maybe Japan