Round The World Alone
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. Julv 25.
LATEST of the single-handed, round the-world voyagers to call at Suva is Mr. William T. Murnan, who is sailing a 30 ft. all-steel yawl which he built at Los Angeles.
The vessel has a 25 HP auxiliary engine, electric light, an air-conditioned plant, radio, and a stove constructed so that it is always perpendicular whatever the angle at which the shin is rolling.
Mr. Murnan has been at sea for 40 years. He started by stowing away in a whaler. He built his first vessel, a 54 ft. schooner, in Seattle. In 12 years he and his wife sailed this ship, the “Seven Seas,” 100,000 miles, mostly tin South and Central American waters.
He left Los Angeles in the new steel ship, “Seven Seas II” on March 2, 1947, and has visited the Hawaiian, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Society and Samoan Groups.
Mrs. Muman travelled as far as Pago Pago.
From Fiji, Mr. Muman intends to go to the New Hebrides and Solomons. New Guinea, Australia, East Indies, India, Mauritius, South Africa and New York, finishing this cruise about 1954.