Yacht For New Guinea
p. 29 · Read in the full issue
"WANTED, adventurous man to sail in yacht to New Guinea. Apply be tween 12 and 2.”
That was the advertisement inserted by Raymond Penny and Arthur Moses, who intend to sail around New Guinea in Penny’s 30ft. ketch, Whileaway.
And at noon, to use Penny’s words, “the corridors were crowded with applicants, the lift was full, and men were beginning to queue up outside the building.
Finally “Tony” McNally was chosen.
In boisterous weather the Whileaway cleared Sydney Heads the following night for Newcastle, but was forced to return owing to severe storms off the coast. After a day or so in port they sailed again for New Guinea and the East.