from Rarotonga , Cook

September after he had raced her singlehanded from California to Hawaii. Roy Chambers is living aboard as mate while Hal is on tour in the US. This winter the vessel will be sailed to New Zealand.

PAUL RYSAVY reports

Islands:

• PAUA, an 11.6 m, Hong Kong registered catamaran arrived in Rarotonga in late April. The Brout- Snowgoose cat was built in England in 1974 and has been owned by David and Mavis Powell since October 1979. From 1974 to 1979 the yacht was owned by Captain Ashley Wag, who entered her in numerous races in Hong Kong. The Powells sailed Paua from Hong Kong harbour in early December 1979 to Singapore, their first stop in a long and interesting voyage. From Singapore they sailed to the Ma lacca Strait, Port Klang, Lemut, Sebang, Sri Lanka, Aden and then up to the Red Sea to Port Sudan.

From Port Sudan they journeyed to Suez, through the canal to Alex andria, then Crete, the Corinth Canal, Italy and the islands off the coast of Naples, Sardinia, Corsica, and to France, where they followed the canals to Bordeaux. South

ampton in England, the yacht’s home, was the next stop before the Powells decided to go south to the Canary Islands, Barbados, Curasao, and Panama. The cat then struck out across the Pacific to the Marquesas and the Societies before arriving in Rarotonga. The Powells spent only three short days here before sailing directly to Sydney, their home, where they need to earn some more money before they can resume their travels. • ALRISHA. Jean and Joanne Kozier also arrived in Rarotonga in late April, on their 12 m cutter, Alrisha. The Vancouver-registered yacht was designed by Canadian airline pilot Doug Cook and has been owned by the Koziers since it was built three years ago. The Canadian couple bought Alrisha as a kit (only a hull and deck), and it was two busy years before the yacht was ready for an ocean voyage. In July 1980 the Koziers sailed Alrisha to Hawaii, where they planned to spend six months, but as expenses proved higher than ex pected, they left after four months.

Tahiti was the next stop, and the couple travelled around French Polynesia for five months before sailing to Rarotonga. After two weeks here, Alrisha sailed to Tonga and Fiji, and will eventually journey

to New Zealand where the Koziers plan to spend the next hurricane season and make up their minds where to go next. • TRUGANINI, A 13 m cat, left

Rarotonga in mid-May, after spend

ing eight months in Rarotonga.

Skipper/owner John Margarson was fortunate enough to find a job in Rarotonga and replenish his fin ances before continuing his travels.

Truganini. named after the last Tasmanian Aborigine, was designed by James Wharram and built by John himself. The cat left Holyhead, Wales, in October 1979 to be immediately caught in a gale and blown to Ireland. From Ireland Truganini sailed to the Canaries, Barbados, through the Caribbean to

Antigua, Panama, the Galapagos,

Marquesas, Tuamotus, the Societ ies and Rarotonga. From here John sails to Aitutaki in the Cooks, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and finally Australia, where he hopes to find another job. • SILVER WILLOW. The first yacht to arrive in Rarotonga after the hurricane season was Silver Willow, from Victoria, British

Columbia. The 11.5 m Hughes

sloop was built 12 years ago, based

on Sparkman-Stephens design. The

Canadian skipper, Mary Jane Crawley, has owned the vessel for two and a half years. In August 1979 she left Canada to sail down the west coast of America to Baja before striking out across the Pacific to the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti, where she spent the hurricane season.

In March Silver Willow voyaged to Borabora where lan Douglas, the sole crew member came aboard to accompany Mary Jane to Raro tonga. From here the couple will sail

to American Samoa to catch a flight back to Canada for ‘a holiday from our holiday’. After a month at home, they will fly back to Samoa to sail the yacht to Fiji and on to New Zealand, where further plans will be made. • JOHANNE BRUHN. Another caller to Avatiu Harbour in April was Johanne Bruhn, a modified Danish fishing trawler owned by George and Sue-Anne Colding. The Goldings, who are travelling around the Pacific with no specific itiner ary, spent about a week in Rarotonga. • RUNAWAY. Yet another visitor to Rarotonga was Runaway, a

17.6 m Chicago-registered sloop.

The yacht, designed by Ted Hood, was built in Holland by Franz Maas in 1974. Skipper/owner David Henner and his wife Agnes said they were glad to be in an English speaking environment after spend ing three months of the hurricane season in Moorea. The Henners began their cruise in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and sailed their luxurious sloop to the Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama, Ecuador, the Galapagos, Nukuhiva, Tahiti, and Moorea, where they berthed for the hurricane season.

Once sailing was safe again, they visited Borabora before arriving in Rarotonga on April 15. On their voyage to Rarotonga from the Societies, the Henners were ac companied by Renaud Delcourt, a yacht-owner himself, who boarded in Papeete, and by Brian and Sue- Anne Waters, who joined the sloop in Borabora. After a few days here, the Waters returned to the US to be replaced by two other crew mem bers who flew to Rarotonga to join the yacht. After a brief stay here, Runaway will sail to Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and finally New Zea land, where she will be dry-docked before the skipper decides where to go next.

Spellbound under sail off Cape Brett, New Zealand. (See Page 87). - Jane DeRidder picture.