Abigail
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Reged: 06/10/2002
Posts: 645
Loc: South of France
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It's Rosie Swales all right. We have Children of Cape Horn on board (but deep in bilges at the mo!); there may be one that came before that too. Our cover pic is very innocuous - children in lifejackets with mum if I recall.
There is one topless pic in it, because that is how they financed the trip. She;s very upfront about it, and took a load of stick for it at the time I think. At least one of the children was born at sea. They sailed their cat around the Horn when everyone was telling them it couldn't be done. It's a good read because, in a very breezy understated way, she tells the story of really impressive voyage. Two tiny children, one small and elderly catamaran and the Southern Ocean!
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saddle_tramp
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Reged: 11/07/2007
Posts: 724
Loc: London
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Good old Rosie, is or was she an inspiration to you?
She certainly was for me as I was in my early 20's when I read her books and no sign of ever being able to afford a boat.
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chumleigh123
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Reged: 25/11/2008
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The Granary Loafer may be the name of the catamaran. She was a 60 foot white cat. I crewed on her in the Caribbean in 1981 after she was refitted following being demasted in a gale in the Atlantic and beached in the Bahamas. She was said to have had a female round the world skipper when she had her accident.
Edited by chumleigh123 (25/11/2008 00:24)
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