Published by Collins, 1979, 190 pages

In the autumn of 1978 the media in Australia and NZ ran a hot story on how Bill, winner of the 1974 Transtasman singlehanded race, New Plymouth to Mooloolaba, Queensland, had started in the 1978 race but had gone missing. The nub of the story was the apparent reluctance of the race's organizers to institute a search. The eventual air search located Bill's Josephine II on the notorious Middleton Reef, but HMAS Swan could find no trace of Bill and the liferaft. The story culminated when, after 28 days of drifting in the raft, Bill was picked up by a Nauru-bound ship...