Seven Seas II Heads
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
for Bali
THE stainless-steel yacht Seven Seas 11, owned and sailed single-handed by Mr. Bill Murnan, is now somewhere around between Portuguese Timor and Bali.
After several months in Papua-New Guinea, Murnan left Port Moresby on May 2 but was forced to return by adverse weather and made a second start on May 8. He wandered around among the reefs and islands of the West Papuan coast and did some hiking and movie-making on the mainland during most of May and June and reached Thursday Island at the end of June, where he was joined by the other ocean going Yankee yacht, Storna way.
He writes that he ‘‘doesn’t think much of Thursday Island, anyway.” Apart from its being a bad place to anchor, he was charged £lO for having Seven Seas hauled up on the slip and £1 per day while she lay there. In the United States and Hawaii, he says, the cost of similar service is eight dollars to haul and one dollar per day while on the slip.
He left Thursday Island on July 11 and a few days later was in Dili harbour, Portuguese Timor. Writing from there on August 9. he said he expected to shove off in a few days and go island-hopping to Bali where he hoped Mrs. Murnan (then in Tokio) would join him. After Bali, he will make for Cape Town.