Selling Hashish in VIETNAM . Chapter 13 - Lost
Female labor was cheap in Singapore in 1973. For the lowest level job they were paid S$330/- a month. This was pretty good munny when coca cola cost 15 cents a bottle and a bowl of “Mee Rebus”, a full meal, was 30 cents.
I had many girl friends. Law of Nature was taking its course.
I got into the rhythm of life in Singapore.
AXARA, Jim, Janet, Janice, Vietnam, became memories.
Janet and Janice, who had gone off to Penang, never called. There was no way I could contact them.
Almost a year passed. Maybe slightly less, maybe slightly more, I cannot remember.
I went to Tanjong Rhu with a friend. I said lets go to RSYC for a drink. We went.
A few drinks. I remembered the time I had spent here with Jim and the AXARA crew, and also remembered the entries made by Jim in the Log Book / Register of the club for boats mooring there.
I flipped the pages looking for the AXARA. I found the page.
Jim had written:
Expected date of arrival in Colombo: 15 November 1973.
It was around Sept. or Oct. 1974. Almost a year since Jim had sailed the AXARA from Singapore.
I looked at the ‘REMARKS’ column. Apparently the AXARA never made it.
Dated 15.May.1974, there was an official entry:
“LOST AT SEA AND PRESUMED DEAD”.