Yachts
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Dayspring Ii A 16.8 M,
gle-masted, ferro-cement torsailer registered in New aland, otherwise known as ‘Bible Boat’ arrived in auai in June, writes Don ivers from the Austral inds. Aboard were ner/skipper Ron Russell of , his wife Aggie from Fiji, ir young daughter June n, and crew of Dave Hard (USA) and Mike Huns ger (Canada). Dayspring II n the service of the Pacific ile Society distributing les and religious books aughout the South Pacific inds through local jrches and community iups. They arrived in Tahiti ti New Zealand in May 7Q and are now finishing up >r a year of missionary ivity in French Polynesia, ay have called at many of Tuamotu Islands, and visi the Marquesas and So ty Islands. They arrived at auai from Raivavae and left Rurutu and Rimatara. They continue Bible Society ser -3 in the Cook Islands before jrning to Fiji and New aland.
MIMBUS, a 10.7 m cutter It in New Zealand arrived in auai in June from Raivavae h owner/builder William lers (USA) and Christine I and Barbara Robinson ith NZ). They had an 18-day >sage from New Zealand to vavae. They left Tubuai for rutu and Tahiti. Future ns uncertain.
AACUSHLAH II arrived in Duai in June from New aland bound for Tahiti with ptain David Malseed and w Gregory Baker (both A) and Dennis Rutherford inada).
NUNKI, an 11.6 m ferro nent sloop, arrived from w Zealand in July with lan th (USA) and Claire Jones (). It was their fourth visit to auai over a period of six irs. The previous two visits re on yacht delivery jobs
from New Zealand to Califor nia (SUZY Q August 1978 PIM). lan and Claire are now on an ambitious voyage to the Mediterranean. From Tubuai they plan to call at Raivavae, Mangareva, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez and Chile before passing through the Straits of Magellan and cruising the east coast of South America and across the Atlantic. • PETEA, a 10.7 m fibreglass, Fuji ketch, built in Japan, arrived from Tahiti with single handed Charlie Hawks of San Francisco. Petea arrived in the Marquesas in October from San Francisco via Hawaii.
Charlie Hawks has cruised the Society Islands. He left Tubuai in late July for Raivavae and will return to Tahiti before heading west to the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. • FELIX, a 12.3 m steel ketch in the Ophelie class registered in Paimpol, Britanny, passed through Wallis on a circum navigation that has already taken three years, writes Jimmy Cornell from Wallis and Futuna. Alain, Betty and Yann Bloch (now five) left their home port at the end of 1976, spending the first year cruising
in Africa from Senegal to the Cape Verde Islands. The next season was spent in the Carib bean before crossing through Panama and entering the Pa cific in May 1978. On her west ward course Felix called at the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands, also at
An Invitation
To Yachties
My wife and I are both keen sailors, and we would like to invite any cruising yachtsmen calling at Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, to make contact with us so that we can share the hospitality of our home with them.
The Sydney ketch HEBSAL called on us recently bound for charter work in the Philip pines, as did the American yacht ANAH, a 14 m Taiwanese-built boat. Anah and crew were with us for 10 days. On both occasions our home became the centre of entertainment.
We find meeting cruising yachtsmen a most interesting pastime.
Geoff Marchant
PO Box 358 Lorengau Manus Island Papua New Guinea
Suwarrow and Western Samoa. After Wallis plans in clude calls in the New Hebrides and Papua New Guinea before crossing the Indian Ocean to Reunion, where Alain hopes to spend a year working in order to be able to continue the voyage home. • ALKINOOS is another French yacht that passed through Wallis on her way west. Retired doctor Jean- Francois Delvaux and wife Jeannette left their home in La Rochelle in their Nicholson 48 ketch in July 1976, sailing first to Madeira and the Canaries.
While in Senegal they met Felix and the two yachts have been crossing wakes ever since. After crossing the Atlantic to Martinique, the Del vaux visited the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonair and Curacao) off Venezuela and transited the Panama Canal early in 1978. Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands were visi ted first before cruising among the islands of French Polynesia. En route to Wallis, Alkinoos also called at Suwar row and ports in Western Samoa. During the second half of 1979, the Delvaux plan to sail to Fiji, New Hebrides, PNG, Indonesia and the Mal dives, hoping to arrive back in Europe early in 1980. Third crew member is Titus, a very large Alsatian dog.
Top left, lan Keith and Claire Jones aboard Nunki. Left, Mike Hunsberger. Ron Russell and Dave Harding on Dayspring II (Photos D. Travers).
Above, Larry Potter and Cynthia Hathaway of Spaciety (J. Con nell photo).
SPACIETY, Kantola 32 naran from San Diego, lifornia, with Larry Potter j Cynthia Hathaway on ard. This is Larry’s second Dific voyage on Spaciety. a previous one also started m California, but included y Hawaii and French ynesia. On the present voy 5, Spaciety left San Diego in le 1977 bound for the rquesas and Tuamotus. ring the passage to the rquesas the yacht was sur mded one day by a group 30-50 false killer whales, ssibly by accident, one of whales rammed the hull J put a 35cm hole through plywood skin. The yacht s going fast at that time, ng 8-10 knots, but being jported by the side floats i didn’t sink, and Larry naged to patch up the naged area. The whales ig around the yacht for two jrs after the collision, visibly icerned, every now and lin one of them coming up A/ly to the hole and looking ) the hull at Larry working the other side. The trimaran 3 properly repaired later i spent nine months cruis in French Polynesia before rying on to Suwarrow, the • Samoas and Tonga. Plans 1979 include cruising the an islands with nothing firm )x that.
ARA 11, a Vancouver 27 ed by George and Susan lley, called at Funafuti from awa in Kiribati on passage Suva, Fiji, writes Peter Ouarrie from Funafuti, r alu. George is a pro sional boatbuilder from icouver, and Tara II is his n work.
JONATHAN, sailed by i)le-handed ‘Yanick’, a mg Frenchwoman, arrived : unafuti after a 10-day trip n Suwarrow Atoll. Is ided for Kiribati, Micronesia 1 Japan. Yacht: Nicholson AD ASTRA, 14m Piver laran, sailed into Jayapura, st Irian, Indonesia, with /id and Connie Wells, ether with their small jghter, Tami Sam, reports jerica Laymon from 'apura, West Irian. The Its started their voyage
from Sydney in 1964, with the intention of circumnavigating Australia aboard their first trimaran, SCHEHEREZADE, a 10m River. They sailed instead through the Great Bar rier Reef, spent some time in Papua New Guinea. Ad Astra was purchased in Port Moresby. • OCARINA, Westsail 42, arrived in Jayapura, West Irian with Ken and Rica Laymon, and Bob Blaesi. Ocarina, homeported in Pago Pago, American Samoa, spent some time recently visiting Rabaul, PNG, and is presently en route to Bali and Singapore.
August was a busy month for yachts in Tuvalu. The island usually has only four or five yachts call in a year. But in August there were five yachts in port together. Sev eral called on their way south after attending the indepen dence celebrations in Kiribati.
At one point there were in port a steel yacht, a concrete yacht, a wooden yacht and two fibreglass. • JELLICLE, an 8 m conven tionally built wooden boat, probably the smallest cruising boat ever to visit Tuvalu, called during August. Skipper, retired Commander Mike Bailes, and Tongan crewman, Peter, sailed to Funafuti from Wallis Island and departed for Vila in the New Hebrides. Mike Bailes has been cruising the Pacific in Jellicle for 23 years. • OYSTER COVE. Peter and Chris Cole from Sydney arrived at Funafuti in their 10 m ferro-cement yacht from Suva and departed for Vila. • TARA 11. George and Susan Hartley from Vancouver arrived in their Vancouver 25 and departed for Suva. After bad weather they returned to Funafuti and, after resting up, departed once again for Suva. • TARAWARA, a 12 m steel boat arrived from the Kiribati independence celebrations and departed for Lautoka. • AVENTURA, with roving PIM correspondent Jimmy Cornell and family on board, called at Funafuti on their way from the Kiribati indepen dence events to Suva.