 Griffith's newspaper, "The Area News", reported in 1977 that "He finally found work on a riverboat of the period.He later explained that he had been a sailor on the Murray and that his "ship" had been the Mary Anne.The Mary Anne was one of the many boats that steamed the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lachlan, and it would appear that Ricetti was to learn more about life during the period he spent on board her; perhaps something about love, unrequited.