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Nz ks FROX sEA PEoPLE .... U.K. % basking their through Cros refited and Brighton, Edy Mansel had Pahi left Evans Tangaroa an in the where 31 Milbrok and the eventful 'Release', recently French Mediteranean Hazel 'Nina' he on winter is Res canals. his turned after Iast stil extensively pasage December holed motoring are sun up Roger now up. on to at At Devoran, Ghia continues to grow both hu ls are alm ost ready for decking. The proto-type of the sleek , new Tiki 28, is now sailing and there are already firm orders for tw o m ore to be profesFionally built in plyw ood by 'W harram Build' - m ore on this next issue. Ted Johnson is unable to organise this year's S.E. Bank Holiday weekend m eeting as he w il be on an extended cruise in Portugal. Several people have expressed an interest in the m eeting and he hopes that som eone else w il step in and organise it. Volunteers should contact his daughter , Lorraine bancrofts, 30 W heatsheaf Gardens , Sheerness, Kenl. (0795 664373). John Farrim ond's Tiki 31 'W ildcat' (ashore HulI) is now almost finished and hopefuly w il be launched this sum m er. He is keen on chartering and is also looking for people interested in taking a share in the boat. He can be contacted on Hull 504816, evenings. John Head w riles f rom Helslon w i'th som e good new s at Iast about insurance. Bishop Skinner, insurance brokers recom m ended by the RYA , requested that David Edw ards of Fow ey survey John's Hitia 14 and Tiki 21. W hen jresented with satisfactory surveys Blshop Skinner declined to cover either boat! How ever, through J.W .D., John approached Trevissom e lnsurance of Truro w ho obtained cover through Holdfast Yacht & Motor Boat Insurance. The prem ium s aren't extortionate either. John's Tiki 21, valued at E3,200, has been covered at a cost of f 80. This includes transit and third party cover up to f 250,000. Restrictions include no racing and UK waters only. Trevissom e Insurance (Frank Dew, FCII) Shalim ar Penhals W ay Truro, Cornw al TR3 6EX (0872) 876409 Congratulations to Steve and Sandk Turner, our Sailing and General Secretaries, on celebrating 20 years of m arriage. They are presently refitting their Oro 'lm agine' and hope to have her sailing Iater this season. As you may know Steve is building the GRP Tiki 26's, and has now sold five. GRP Tiki 21's should be available from him SOO n . M illbrook, sadly w ilhout his Tangaroa w hich w as pounded to pieces by the ocean surf w hilst beached on the Spanish coast m ore details of this unhappy saga should appear in the next issue of the Sea People. He has fallen in love w ith Spain and is returning w ith his fam ily to start a row ing skiff hire centre on the NW coast. MOCRA Secretry Paul Constantine is editing a new m onthly M ultihull m agazine 'Sail M ultihull'. The m agazine w ill be in colour and w ill be biased tow ards cruising. The PCA has been offered a regular new s colum n so that w e can publicise events and keep in regular touch w ith m em bers. lt is interesting to note that other sailing magazines are about to jump on the Multihul béndwagon so hopefuly we can look forward to a more positive attitude tow ards us in future. AUSTRALIA Peter Hackett and Carl Reynolds organised a very successful ''W harram % * M eet'' on 18/19 M arch at the .' 'Basin''J a beautiful bay just north of Sydney. lt's in a National Park w ith cam ping facililies, toilets and show ers . Despite the unseasonaly w e1 w eather , over 30 people attended, although the only ''Polycats'' present w here the organisers' Tikiroa ''Viviki'' # along w ith John Davis' ''Captain Cook'' It w as decided to hold m ore ''M eets'' and hopefu ly Bob and W yn M oon's Tiki 26, Steve W agstaff 's Tiki 31, and Ray M il's Tikiroa should be sailing in lim e for the next. A sm al new s Ietter, sim ilar to the Canadian one is also going to be produced. Interested builders/sailors should contact: Peter Hackell, 121 Coonanbarra Road, W ahroonga, NSW 2076 , phone (02) 489 4725 or Carl Reynolds , 8 Caren Place, Faulconbridge NSW 2776: phone (047) 51 4905. Edith, Fred and W ally Fultert?) finaly Iaunched Tangaroa M K .IV ''Nakaza'' and have been sailing since M ay 1988 and are very pleased w ith the boat. They add:- ''W e have caled the boat ''Nakaza'' w hich is an aboriginal ' tribal area, most Iikely som ething to do w ith w ater, as there is no direct translation. A few w eeks ago Rangoon M oon arrived in Darw in - she w as built in Beirut. Enthusiasm for W harram s has no Iim its! M artin Low e m otorcycled 800 km . in pouring rain to have a sail in Phil Hooper's Tikiroa he has sold his Narai and is thinking of building a Tikiroa. His efforts w ere not in vain , as the weather cleared and they w ere able to sail in near perfect conditlons. Tikiroa 'VIVIKI' at M arch Polvcat m eet . Left to right: Peter Hackett , Harrv M orsheil, Ken Lawson and Don M urrav The Sea People/sailorm an No. 11 July 1989
# > > *.* * < % - # 4e I N. NO RTH A M ERICA Q . A ndrew and Susan M oizer of 206 Brock St. E, Box 278, M errickvile, Ontario KOG INO, are doing a fine job producing ''Polycat'' the North Am erican new sletter - actua ly m ore Iike a m ini m agazine. A bout 70 members subscribe ($6 per year) and the m ain new s item s are reprinted here. Andrew w rites:- Lots of new s from m em bers. On the building front: M ac Brow n has finished one hu l on his .'Fiki and is w aiting for w arm w eather to fibreglass the second hull. Then its on to the beam s, deck and mast. Last sum mer M ac plso refinished his venerable Tane 'Chiquita'. Steve Veale has built a new m ast beam for his Tangaroa 'Rhiannon', bigger and stronger than the last, and is gearing up for another trip to Berm uda this sum m er from his New Jersey base. New m em ber Barry Sm al from Kincardine O ntario has quite a stable and is adding to it stil. Barry is sailing a 14' Hitia and a Georgian 23 and is building a Tiki 26. Harry Budden of Pow assen Ontario Iaunched his very sm art Iooking Pahi 31 on Lake Nipissing Iast sum m er. Longtim e Polycats m em ber A lan Saunders of Toronto has been m aking progr'ess on his Narai and w il soon be vacating the building barn he has been usinj in Pickering. If anyone is interested In a building site in that area you should get in touch w ith Alan. W est coast m em ber EJ Beard of Prince Rupert launched his Tanenui 'Firew eed' Iast sum m er and is undoubtedly Iooking forw ard to som e great sailing. Ken Kow alski of New Jersey is thinking of m oving his Tiki 21 to M aine to sail this sum m er after getling fed up w ith the overcrow ding on his NJ coasl. Roly Huebsch is working his w ay north from Barbados in his Narai M K.I 'O borea'. Roly plans to be back on the Great Lakes in M ay and I'm looking forward to hearinj more about his voyaging at the Sal In. The Sail In is stil going to happen on the w eekend of 12th/13th August. The venue is the Iovely How e Island hom e of David and Rozanne M oizer on Lake Ontario near Kingston. Plin now to be there, it prom ises to be the best Sail In yet. New m em ber David Bell, 3435 Death Valey Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89122 USA has a Iot of exotic aerospace m aterials he w ould Iike to trade w ith other m em bers for sails, deck-tents etc. for his Tiki 21. These include 1O0 yards of 38 ' graphite c10th pre-im pregnated w ith epoxy resin. 1 has bxcelent stiffness and abrasion resistance but unfortunately m ust be kept frozen and shipped in dry ice! He ako has Kevla'r filam ent and a selection of E glass. He purchased his Tiki 21 plans last fall and pre-coated aII his hull com ponents before w inter hit. 1 DENM ARK / GERM ANY Robert W aldow, Hackenbroicher str. 147 D 5000 Koln 71, is offering accom - m odation for the PCA m em ber w ho w ants to visit ''Boot 89'' in Dusseldorf. Last sum m er Tine Bosch and Thom as Gehm brought their Tiki 21 to Denm ark for a cruise in com pany w ith Roger's Tiki 21 and his tw o young children:- ''It was a great exqerience for five people to Iive on tw o Tlki 21's. At tim es we would Iive as a 'double cat' island, inviting each other for breakfast or dinner and at other tim es we could have our ow n individualistic freedom . W e spent som e beautiful days on our catam arans and found it m ore fun to sail as a group. W e are Iooking forw ard to 1989 and hope that m ore boats w il be able to join us.'' + IRELA N D The second hul of Fiach O 'Brolchain's Pahi 42 is now alm ost comqlete, writes David Whyte. W orklng single-handed under plastic sheeting in his back garden he has halved the tim e taken to build the first hul. He has used W EST epoxy internaly and externally, w ith budget p1y from various sources and Irish Larch for aII stringers - a lovely Iight colour. The Sea People/sailorm an No. 11 July 1989 18
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