| Conachair |
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Just found this link which may be of interest
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/circumna/ci_table.htm
Moitessier's always been a favorite of mine - who's your sailing hero?
| Guapa |
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| 30/06/2008 15:00 |
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Moitessier's always been a favorite of mine
Mine too
My eldest just finished a book about the Golden Globe race.
He abandoned when it looked like he was going to win - just because he didn't see the point in going back. Her comment: 'That's something you would do'.
| robinsondb |
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| 30/06/2008 18:33 |
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Hi Paddy
Easy peasy! Hiscocks - virtually no competition remembering the unassuming 'everydayness' of what they achieved. They led by example and everyone else followed. David
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| 30/06/2008 18:49 |
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Lord Nelson.
| Dockmaster |
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| 30/06/2008 22:12 |
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Edward Allcard
| anteak |
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| 30/06/2008 22:28 |
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The Smeetons
| JamesFrance |
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| 01/07/2008 16:16 |
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The Johnsons, who were moored in Elba when we called there.
Yankee was the first boat we ever saw using a rope/chain combination for the main anchor. The rope was on a drum in front of the mast.
| Conachair |
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| 01/07/2008 17:02 |
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Her comment: 'That's something you would do'.
Hope you took that for the compliment it is.
Look who my next door neighbor is!
Don't think it's the original Joshoa, isn't she in a maritime museum in France now?
But makes me feel humble being next to such a boat anyway. Actually, makes me want to go sailing. To be
"a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea"
| Silver_Fox |
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| 02/07/2008 00:52 |
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Got at least three -who are - in order of me discovering them
Eric & Susan Hiscock
Hal & Margaret Roth
Bernard Moitessier
.... but it was the Hiscocks that set the fire burning
The Hiscocks and the Roths are remarkable but very human; Moitessier is incredible and I would not even pretend to understand!
| vancouver_27 |
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| 16/07/2008 00:57 |
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Annie Hall (or Hill) Voyaging on a small income.
Lin & Larry Pardey Cruising in Seraffyn.
Both favorites of mine.
| phlim |
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| 16/07/2008 18:27 |
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AFAIR the orginal Joshua was wrecked in Baha California - Moitessier describes it in one of his books - I think it's mentioned in his book about self sufficiency.