A night of satisfaction, few beers in comfy bar, good meal surprisingly. After thinking we got the Land Rover safely on board just found out they dropped the big hook off the loading crane onto the bonnet, its made a hell of a mess of it too. Bent the bulkhead out and pushed the bonnet right into the wing, and we cant claim a thing from it. First full day at sea today quite calm we seemed to do nothing but eat. But sick of eating curry this and that. The deck class passengers live in total squaller. They eat and sleep on deck it stinks, they aren’t allowed into the boat at all. First day out about 125 miles, changed £10 into Malaysian dollars. 7 $ to 1 pound.
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Manchester to Perth Australia, March 1970 to August 1970 |
