Yachts
pp. 81-83 · Read in the full issue
The Slocum Society formed in 1955 to promote, record and support long distance passages in small boats has moved its headquarters from New York to Bellflower in California and Neal T. Walker ■has returned as secretary of the society.
The inspiration for the Slocum Society was Captain Joshua Slocum, the first per son to singlehandedly circum navigate the world. His voyage took from 1895-98.
Founder of the society was Richard G. McCloskey who also published the journal The Spray, named after Slocum’s vessel.
The new Slocum Society contact address is; PO Box 1164, Bellflower, Calif 90706.
• Korong 11, A 13 M
fibreglass ketch from Brisbane which is taking the Holmes
family on a two year cruise around the Pacific. John and Vicky are accompanied by young daughters Kirsty and Denby. Next port of call: Tahiti. • KAWANEE an American yacht, in February paid a brief call at Tubuai in the Austral Islands on its way to Raro tonga, to drop off a passenger from Raivavae. Don Travers reports that another February visitor to Tubuai was a West German yacht, the MORITZ B with Harald and Hedvig Voss aboard. They brought two people from Raivavae who were immediately flown to Papeete for medical treat ment. Moritz B left within a day-and-a-half for Papeete.
• Three-and-a-half years after sailing from Cammeray out of Sydney Harbour on their honeymoon, Adrian and Anne Hickey were back at Cam meray, with Father George Kester of Cook Islands yacht watching fame, for the baptism of their son Alistair James Bede. The ceremony took place aboard the Hickeys’ 15-metre ferro-cement yacht ARWEN. Father Kester, who has played host to thousands of yachties over the past 15 years at Avarua on Rarotonga, was in Sydney for talks with PlM’s publisher, Pacific Publi cations, about his planned book, Father George's Book of Yachts. The Hickeys were at Avarua some years ago and,
like others who dropped anchor there, they recorded their visit and impressions in Father George’s guest book.
Material for the book will come from his collection of guest books which contain the sig natures, poems, comments and graffiti of hundreds of callers to Avarua. Anne and Adrian have ‘swallowed’ the anchor for the moment and are living in Sydney. • The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli in Sydney
Adrian, Anne and Alistair Hickey and Father George Kester ... baptism afloat
I Harbour is planning a recon- Istruction and upgrading of
The Rsys,
established in 1862 and the oldest yacht club in New South Wales, has been at its present location since 1902. Plans are to replace ‘obsolete and untidy’ facilities on the water front with facilities up to cur rent international standards: provide a calm water basin protected by a floating break water; and to improve the vis “ual and environmental impact of the RSYS. An environmental impact statement on the pro ject has been in circulation since December. • SEA ROVER 12-metre Seawitch type ketch, was scheduled to leave Fiji in April, but the destination was not named. The ketch, carrying owner Les Albright, of San Diego, and a friend, Caroline, arrived in Fiji in September, 1978, to spend the hurricane season. They left San Diego about five years ago, staying in Mexico for about two years, then Hawaii for a year, before sailing to the Solomons, Samoa, Tonga and other Pacific Islands to Fiji.
• ASLAN, a 12.3 m sloop from San Diego, California, which is taking Texan couple Scott and Beverly Wilmoth around the world. Originally from Dallas, they left California in July 1977 bound for Hawaii, Marquesas, Society Islands, American Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand where they refitted while they sat out the cyclone season. Last month they planned to cross the Tasman to Australia, then sail up inside the Great Barrier Reef to Papua New Guinea and on to Indonesia. From there it will be out into the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope. They hope to arrive home in Texas in 2-3 years. • SEA LOVE, a 9m steel sloop from San Pedro Califor nia, arrived in Rabaul from the Solomon Islands with co owners Bob Gibson and Dena Jensen. Plans were to pro ceed to Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Bob and Dena, who have been cruising the South Pacific since August 1975, experienced their most severe weather when travel ling to and from New Zealand.
• KARAK, an 11 m Knocker design steel ketch in Whan garei for the cyclone season.
Retired French couple George and Helene Calme left Morlaix, their home port in Brittany, nearly four years ago for a leisurely world cruise that first took them to Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the Cape Verde Islands. They crossed the Atlantic to Martinique, spent a season cruising in the Carib bean before transiting the Panama Canal early in 1977.
In the Pacific, they sailed to Cocos Island, the Galapagos, Gamblers, Tuamotus and So ciety Islands. After a year in French Polynesia they headed west stopping in Suwarrow, the Samoas, Wallis, Futuna, Tonga and Fiji, before sailing to New Zealand. • TALOFA LEE, A Westsail 32 cutter from San Francisco.
Dave and Blitz Weikart left San Francisco in May 1978 arriving in the Marquesas 30 days later. After visiting the Tuamotu and Society Islands, they sailed for Rarotonga. The fair sailing season being too far advanced, they decided to spend the cyclone season in
New Zealand before returning to the Tropics. Now they are bound for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. • WIND ROSE a 12.5 m River Victrous trimaran from San Diego, arrived in Rabaul with John and Sally Wishovich and son Vinaka, 2. Wind Rose left the US west coast in June 1973 and has covered most South Pacific island groups, taking time out in Suva, Fiji, for Vinaka's birth. Plans are to sail through the Torres Strait to Indonesia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean to Sally’s home city, Boston, Massachusetts.
George and Helene Calme on Karak .. taking their lime around the globe. Jimmy Cornell photo