Cruising

Yachts

• APPLEDORE 20 m gaff rigged wooden schooner, registered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US, arrived in Rarotonga in April bound for the Samoas, writes Susana Nia in Rarotonga. On board, with owner-skipper Herb Smith, with ages ranging from two to 64, were John Richards, Tom and Doris Smith, Alexandria Clark, Anne and Jack Williams, Maria and Jack Stiles, Donna and Alan Twombly, Sandy and Greg Wellstead and Maggie Gaeth.

T he Appledore, after cruising the Caribbean, had visited 3 anama, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Societies and Fuamotus. Launched in last year, this is the maiden voyage.

Fwo days out of Rarotonga, he two-year-old boy on board /vas taken ill with bronchitis and high fever and the Appledore put back in for reatment. A crewman was noved to comment; ‘His prob em has been taken care of hanks to your good medical acilities . . . It’s nice to be in he Cook Islands. They’re as beautiful as French Polynesia )ut without the inflated costs md language barrier

• Gloria Maris, A 15 M

unk, homeported in Guam, arrived in Rabaul with Delmer md Joyce Stone. Gloria Maris neans ‘Glory of the Sea’, a ieashell treasured by collec ors the world over. Shell en husiasts themselves, the >tones have improvised a Iredging system on board to ind shells in depths to 200 m, writes Roderica Laymon from labaul. Another arrival in labaul was FALCON, 17 m notorsailor ketch, Herreshoff lesign, homeported in Pun arenas, Costa Rica. Morris lensen, owner-skipper, was iccompanied by Debbie Poe, ler son Shawn, age 6, and ’aul Sullivan. The engine is mder the mainmast, with the nast serving as exhaust. It’s a

startling sight to see smoke puffing forth from the mast. • Radio messages reported by Laymon in Rabaul in April- May included: BANYANDAH in Brunei: GANDALF in Kagoshima, Japan, heading north; MILLROSE heading for Kobe, Japan; MOANA out of Manus for Madang; WAN DERBIRD in Madang; SCOR PIO in Kieta; SITISI 111 in Honiara: FREYJA in Sin gapore; APHRODITE in Palau; trimaran ALLEGRA in No 110, Panay Island in the Philippines; OCARINA out of Rabaul for Indonesia: SPINDRIFT heading for Queensland; DRAGONERA in Honiara, heading for Vila; WINDROSE in Samarai; INTERMEZZO in Darwin, proceeding to Bali WY WUR RIE en route to Cairns; SUN FLOWER in Port Moresby: FREJA in Port Moresby; trimaran VALKYRIEN in Palau; THYME in Manila; EST in Cebu City, Philippines; ARION 111 out of the Hermit Islands in northern PNG head ing for Indonesia SUNDAY MORNING in Port Moresby; DREAMTIME in Darwin; GILLAWA returning to Aus tralia RIGADOON in Vanimo, northern PNG, heading for Indonesia: SVEA and WIND SUN in Samarai WARLOCK in the southern Solomons; and THURLOO in the Marovo La goon, Solomons. • Other visitors to Rarotonga,

reports Susana Nia, were BE CAUSE. an 11 m cutter built by owner-skipper Dick Thuillier from Victoria, BC, Canada, which left for Pago Pago; OJALA (meaning ‘I hope so’), al2 m Mason ketch registered in Hawaii, with owner-skipper Jack Moseley and wife Sylvia, on its way to New Zealand after visiting French Polynesia; RIMU, 11 m Snowgoosecutter-rigged cata maran, London-registered, owner-skipper David Gilchrist and son James, on way to Pago Pago; KAMAWICK 14 m ketch, Papeete-regis tered, with Kermadec Islands next stop on way to New Zea land ALISA with Tonga next stop; and SPECTRA going to Pago Pago.

Jimmy Cornell on the AVEN TURA on his way to Wallis Islands in May, reports: • SAVANNAH 12.60 m fer

rocement Raiatea class cutter, is taking Brisbane's Watson family on a cruise around the southwestern Pacific. Skipper Barry, accompanied by wife Gail and two young sons, Kelly (2V2) and Casey (9 months), arrived in Nukualofa at the end of April after a rough but fast seven-day passage from Auckland. After cruising the Tongan islands, they left Vavau for Tongatapu and then Fiji, where they planned to spend several months before returning to Australia. • EOLO, 19 m cutter from Lahaina, Hawaii, arrived at the end of April in Tongatapu bound for New Zealand, with US owner-skipper Tim Gold and NZ mate Ross Lynch. The John Philips yacht was built in Australia for the 1947 Sydney

Ross Lynch, five-year-old foul mouth Romeo, and Tim Gold on Eolo

to Hobart Race. Over the past 30 years Eolo has taken part in several races out of Hawaii and California and has also undertaken two Pacific cruises under different owner ship. On the present cruise, Eolo left Hawaii in June 1978 for the Marquesas, Tuamotu and Society Islands. After a brief stopover in the Cooks, Eolo arrived in Nukualofa, her owner planning to sail on to New Zealand for a major refit before continuing to Japan and, hopefully, China. Ross, who describes himself as ‘mul tifunctional’ left home in 1977 on board the yacht SUN SHINE. The last, but not least important member of the crew is five year old Romeo, a parrot with a wide repertoire of whistles and an even better supply of four letter words.

• Morning Star, 21 M

steel schooner from Santa Cruz, California, is cruising the Pacific with a mission. Its crew are members of the Glo bal Youth Evangelism move ment. President Reverend Al Lewis is accompanied by the skipper of Morning Star, Bren dan Baer, his wife, Pat Baer, Mike and Susie Mclntosh.

They left California in July 1978 sailing to Hawaii, then sailing in at ports in American and Western Samoa before 'caching Tonga. The move ment, which is based in Santa Sruz, has followers in Mexico, Canada and Samoa, the mem bers of the organisation songregating in what are ermed as Assemblies of God.

Corning Star’s present mission, says Mr Lewis, is not >o much to attract new fol owers as to encourage and strengthen the missionaries of he Christian faith in the Pa cific area and to help revive he Christian church. So far, le says, they have had an excellent reception every vhere. After Tonga, Morning Star's crew planned to sail to /licronesia, visiting the /larshall Islands, Yap and s alau. • KIANO. For more than 30 'ears Cliff Garvie has been isked by friends when he was joing on his dream cruise, iverytime he replied: ‘Not yet.’

So it’s not surprising he called his dreamboat Kiano, meaning ‘not yet’ in Maori. Not worried by the age-old superstition, Kiano left Auckland on Friday, May 13, bound for Tongatapu.

En route the crew stopped at Raoul Island, in the Ker madecs, diving for several hours among the huge number of fish and several two-metre sharks, intrigued by the strange intruders into their do main. On board the 10.70 m cutter are the skipper’s wife Mona and crew Peter Wilkin son, Peter Worley and Bernie Marshall. Only Bernie was staying on to cruise with the Garvies through Tonga from south to north before heading for Fiji.

• New Morning 13 M

Philip 43 sloop from Dart mouth, England, arrived in Vavau in May from Tahiti. Skip per Philip Wade and wife Sue were delivering New Morning to its Australian owner in Mel bourne. The 24 000 km job started in November in England, from where they sailed to the Canaries, West Indies and Panama. In the Pa cific, New Morning has made stops in Cocos Island, Marquesas, Tuamotus and So ciety Islands. After Vavau the crew were planning to stop in Suva before the final leg to Australia. Skipper Phil is an old salt in the yacht delivery business having completed so far 12 trans-Atlantic deliveries (several from the UK to Brazil), one across the Indian Ocean and one other Pacific delivery. • CASTAWAY, 17 m staysail schooner, provisionally‘based in Suva, Fiji, spent May cruis ing the Tongan islands. On board were US owner Steve Humen, Connie Myers and Fijian crew Jack Wickham.

Steve bought the boat in Tahiti in 1976. During the past three years he has cruised in American Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Steve Humen is a com mercial diver working on the North Sea oilrigs off the British coast. He commutes regularly between the UK and Fiji, spending his long holidays aboard Castaway. He hopes to take more time off soon and sail to the New Hebrides.