New members

 

The NELLIGEN YACHT CLUB has new honorary members: Brian and Belinda Laughlin, just back from a cruise to Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, have dropped anchor off "Riverbend" to go back to their hometown Ulladulla, just fifty clicks up the highway. Their 17-metre yacht PANDORA IV, domiciled at Bluewater Marina north of Cairns, adds a nice nautical flavour to the place and makes me want to sail off into the sunset again.

SY Scruffie

Past Cottage guests and honorary members of the Nelligen Yacht Club, Simon and Miwako and son and brother and mother, dropped in aboard SY Scruffie enroute to Batemans Bay.

'Sayonara' until we meet again!

MARE Zeitschrift der Meere

I am an occasional reader of MARE Zeitschrift der Meere which is all about oceans and seas. I suggested to its chief editor Karl Sturzem a few stories for publication:

• My friend Horst Berger's life on an island in Tonga
• About Joe Altenhein and his Villa Mamana
• German Harry who was really a Dane
• Gösta Brand who lived on Packe Island in the Torres Strait
• Oskar Speck who paddled from Germany to Australia
• Dave Glasheen on Restoration Island
• The Story of the Frenchman Narcisse Pelletier
• The Hepworth family on Pigeon Island

And, of course, my favourite, the story of Tom Neale on Suwarrov:

• his book
• and photos
• the anniversary of his death
• and more
• and more
• and then some more.

He wrote back: "Many thanks for your interesting suggestions. I will take some time to study them before presenting them to our next editorial meeting at the end of January. Please be patient until then."