age heads next for Coffs Harbour,

New South Wales, where the surf is reputed to be good, then on across the Indian Ocean to South Africa.

Tom says he may try to sell the low, lean, lofty-rigged racing sloop so they can continue on in a yacht more suitable for cruising. • ADELANTE. Ken Bernard has found “lots of good waves all through the South Pacific”. He met Tom Mailheau of Mirage in Hawaii, and it was Tom who persuaded him to “head on around”, though Ken’s plans had been simply to sail to Hawaii for the summer for the surf ing . . . Adelante, a Pearson 20, is his third Pearson-designed sailing boat. He has also owned a Triton as well as a 7.9 m version. Crew mem ber Cec Hayes jumped ship in Fiji to sail on Askoy to Micronesia, leaving Ken to single-hand to Australia. • ASKOY. Prolonging their stay in Fiji in October in order to refrigerate their hold before heading up to Mic ronesia looking for lobster was the 19 m steel centreboard yawl, Askoy.

Built with overlapping and riveted 9.5 mm iron plate below the water line for the commodore of the Royal Belgian Yacht Club 20 years ago, Askoy was well known in the South Pacific some years back when the late poet/cult folk singer Jacques Brel owned her and cruised, mainly in the Marquesas. Under the supervision of her American owner, Kathy Cleve land, Askoy has been undergoing a prolonged refit in New Zealand.

With the help of Harlow Daugherty, joint owner in the massive venture for the past two years, Askoy’s resto ration has been completed. They moved the galley from the forward part of the ship, they extended the cabin with interior finish of rimu taking the place of teak veneer. They converted two cabins into cargo space. The latter change has resulted in the boat’s nickname, S. Cargo.

James Chandler, a shipwright involv ed in the magnificent restoration of Askoy, sailed for some months in Mexico on yacht Serajfyn, (Lyn and Parry Pardey’s 7 m engineless much written-of world cruising yacht). A tremendous contrast is Askoy’s six cylinder Gardner diesel with its Hun dested variable pitch propeller. And, as James points out, now Askoy’s cabin has been altered, there is no need for crew to be less than six feet tall to be comfortable; there’s plenty of room to install an overhdpd ceiling fan. In keeping with her new look, in Suva they bought a ship’s tender a 4.8 m Fijian longboat called Bulouniswasa “beautiful lady of the sea”. • SYBARIS. As the name of their Bob Perry-designed Tyana 37 im plies, Jim and Marie Carlyle ap preciate the finer things of life like sports fishing, and Tongan wood carvings. In fact, Marie bought so many carvings in Tonga (25) that Jim bought her a set of wood-carving tools in Suva. But so far Marie has

not had a chance to use them. Jim himself has been so busy carving, a bit of a change of pace for a nuclear physicist from Silicon Valley, in the forefront of technology in the field of semi-conductor test equipment. Not that life is all that quiet and unevent ful. She’s only nine months old, but already Sybaris has been hit by light ning and has had $lO,OOO worth of

electronics zapped, including both

batteries and bilge pump, a mic rowave oven and a Loran C, but not the TRACOR sat nav, which was protected by circuit breaker and two fuses. Even electronic gear not plugged in was destroyed. All this in spite of the Carlyles calling them selves “charter members” of the “Chickens of the Sea”. “We’d rather be live chickens than dead turkeys.

We usually sail with the mainsail reefed”. • PHEZULU. A wise old animal of Greek mythology provides the source of this unusual name, and so far the 8.5 m Sydney-registered sloop has been wise enough to keep its roaming occupants free of trouble. They are John and Halina Boulter, who, from a bare fibreglass hull and decks, built in Geelong, Victoria, completed this Aussie version of the classic H 28, launching her in ’79. By choosing

Rounding the marker off Port Moresby at the end of the 1983 Yule Island race is Di Hard, one of three PNG yachts (the others are Surefoot, and Too Impetu ous) which came to Australia in December for the Southern Cross series. - Kay Bason picture.

A workout in Port Mores by Harbour for Surefoot, one of the three PNG yachts which were in Australia in December for the Southern Cross series of events. Surefoot also sailed in the Admir al’s Cup series in Europe in 1983.- Kay Bason picture.

From Silicon Valley to Fiji: Marie and Jim Carlyle after sail ing from USA to Fiji in their Tyana-37 yacht Sybaris. They survived a lightning strike near Hawaii. - Jane DeRidder picture.

sloop rather than the usual H 28 ketch rig, John reckons he saved at least $l5OO on extra mast, rigging and sails. John and Halina cruised Vic toria and the Great Barrier Reef, spent six months in New Zealand and another six months in Tonga and Fiji.

They planned to go back to New Zealand for the February birth of a crew member, then return to cruise sheltered Nadi Waters and the Yasawas while Baby Boulter gets his/her sealegs. Phezulu is almost sure to win the prize for the youngest crew member in the Musket Cove Yacht Club annual cruising yacht race from Dick’s Place in Malolo Lailai to Port-Vila starting on Sep tember 9, 1984. John and Halina

tentatively plan on returning a year

from now to Australia to build a larger cruising home a 10.5 to 11.5 m aluminium or steel craft and to study for their ham licences. • SHENANIGANS. Albert Dyk,

professional captain and delivery

skipper for the past 10 years, is

delivering this 12.8 m Taiwan-built

Stan Huntingford-designed yacht to

Melbourne from Tahiti for her own er. With him is Tommy Clark, surfer from Hawaii, and Karenne Hall, who

joined Shenanigans in Pago for

something different and interesting to

Magician, clown and mime ar tist Mark Parisian shows Donna Nicol how to fly a kite from the deck of his yacht Prelude in Nadi Waters, Fiji (see opposite page). - Jane DeRidder picture.

Laura and Charlie Ciszek on their Atkins cutter African Star in Fiji. They are sailing out of USA on a long Pacific cruise. - Jane DeRidder picture.

do a change of pace from Mel bourne. They’ll be stopping in Syd ney for a mini-refit on their way down the Aussie coast, in order to be ready for the Melbourne racing sea son. Albert calls the Solar 42 the Australian version of what is known in the U.S. as a Passport 42 “a

performance-oriented cruising sailing

boat”. He says their daily average run is close to 150 miles. He said the Scandinavian-stem cutter is similar to a Valiant 40 but with greater emphasis on comfort and accommodation. • PRELUDE. When Mark Parisian left California for the South Pacific on his flush deck 7.6 m Cheoy Lee Folkboat, (’56-built, of teak on white oak), a boat he’d bought for $3200 and rebuilt, he carried a strange cargo 500 tennis balls, 200 frisbees, and 20 masks which he’d made himself of plaster of Paris and clay. A talent ed mime artist, Mark has been giving free performances in almost every village he’s touched upon in his sail

through French Polynesia, Tonga,

and Vavau, as well as classes in clowning, juggling and disco in most schools, and a performance at the Hibiscus Festival in Suva last Sep tember. Each of his students is awarded a frisbee and taped tennis balls filled with sand, and Mark wins the hearts and hospitality of the villa gers. Mark was a student of calculus and physics (he calls mime “the physics of the body”) before he start

ed studying mime full-time 13 years ago. Parisian has taught at the Milan School of Mime, and the Santa Bar bara School of Mime, as well as at boys’ clubs. “Mime changes people’s lives; they open up amazingly,” he says. He calls clowning “a freeing thing. I used to be very shy,” he added. With hardly a tennis ball left, and only enough frisbees to use as ship’s plates, Mark is on his way from Fiji to New Zealand where he hopes once again to do school per formances as he travels. After single handing Prelude as far as Suva, Mark was joined by Donna Nicols of Tauranga and Kerikeri, who had sailed from Tonga on the U.S. trima ran Pura Vida with Puerto Rican twin brothers. From a sailing family, Don na learned to crawl on a trimaran. (Her dad was killed five years ago when he was hit on the head with a boom.) Her mother sailed to Tahiti recently, and is now on her way back on the Canadian yacht August Moon.

Lan G. Menzies Re

ports from Darwin,

Australia:

• BOANERGES. What impressed me most about Toby Richardson’s 14 m cataraman Boanerges is the full bodied (almost bulbous) design of her twin hulls, and the undoubted stability they give. Whereas Aust ralian multi-hull design tends to wards slimmer and sleeker lines, British catamarans carry their full ness throughout, giving added buoy ancy up front, where it counts.

The twin hulls of Boanerges are, in fact, from the original 1965 Prout Ocean Ranger moulds, known today as the Quasar. Each hull, which has a beam of almost 2 m, has a long shallow keel which protects the bilges when grounding. Both hulls have headroom throughout and are basically, but functionally, fitted out.

The port hull has more than adequate sleeping accommodation for six peo ple, whilst the starboard houses the dinette, galley, head, chart table, and a master’s cabin.

Despite the size of the craft, Boanerges has tiller steering, but also has the biggest winch grinder I have yet seen on a cruising boat. With an overall beam of 7 m, a spacious bridge deck which is kept clear for working or lounging, and a function al sloop rig with a full wardrobe of sails, it is little wonder that Boanerges has maintained an average of 135 miles per day since leaving the United Kingdom in October ’Bl.

Toby and his crew had a work-up passage to the Canaries and then having sorted out all the “bugs”, made the Atlantic crossing without incident. The Panama Canal proved to be a memorable experience for Toby as he says, “an amazing piece of civil engineering has to be one of the wonders of the world”.

Another passage that will be long remembered, not for its excitement

but for the sheer frustration, was the interminable days it took to sail from Samoa to Tonga, most of which were spent totally becalmed while the ocean currents carried them gently sideways. As Boanerges carries only a small outboard for harbor manoeuvring, there was nothing to do but sit it out.

Toby’s favorite place, however, is the now deserted island of Hiva-oa in the Marquesas. In the Hanamanan Valley on the island can be seen the foundations for dozens of houses which formerly supported a popula tion of over 2000. With a freshwater pool and waterfall just behind the beach, white sands and swaying palms, it is everyman’s dream of a tropical paradise.

It is interesting to note that the only navigation aids on board Boanerges are a compass, chronome ter, sextant and a Walker log. The only problem with the Walker log, Toby says, is that the rotator keeps being taken by sharks they lost two sets coming across the Pacific.

From Darwin, Toby Richardson and his crew will head across the Indian ocean to South Africa, and eventually complete the circumnavi gation back to Falmouth in the U.K. • MAMAMOUCHI. Originally a sloop, Mamamouchi is a Nicholson 55 now converted to yawl right for long ocean passages. Purchased in Hong Kong, the vessel is skippered by David Killian from California, with a crew from as far afield as Scotland and Sweden.

With her warm and delightfully old-fashioned teak interior, laid decks, and classic Nicholson lines, Mamamouchi is a true lady of the seas. A very pleasant day indeed was spent sailing off Darwin with David and his crew.

From Darwin, Mamamouchi will beat against the trades to Port Mores by before tackling a Pacific crossing after the cyclone season.

Sean and Chris Ahern and daughter Kelly make up the family crew on board Starseed, a 12-metre steel chine ketch which has been cruising exten sively in the Pacific. The ketch was built by Sean and Chris at Rotorua in New Zealand, and taken to the coast at Tauranga for launching. They were in Port Moresby when this picture was taken. - Kay Bason picture.

Tony Richardson, owner skipper of the British catama ran Boanerges, in Darwin dur ing his westward circumnaviga tion. - lan G. Menzies picture.

lain Clark from Scotland, crew member of Mamamouchi, at the well-equipped chart table. - lan G. Menzies picture.