Yachting May 73 - Arrived in Australia, this time to stay awhile. I’d had enough of the offshore oil exploration industry that was changing rapidly from the need for operators camped out in rough and remote locations (which lifestyle I loved), to high-tech computerized systems that needed to be done by technicians crammed with too many other men on board the boats (which I hated). That industry had been ideal to give me the adventure that I enjoyed while building up the financial stake that I would need to follow the next adventure dream of owning my own yacht to cruise the oceans. Jun 73 – Bought yacht ‘Tangari’. Tangari under full sail. A charming classic ‘Tahiti Ketch’ design. I didn’t really do any shopping around, just bought the cheapest ($9k) solid feeling vessel advertised. It was cheap partly because it was stuck in Gladstone, Qld, which wasn’t much of a town and a long way from the market at that time. It was value for money but not the vessel that I should have