Conachair
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Loc: Canaries
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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?
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Guapa
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Loc: UK East Coast
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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'.
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Guapa on the web
I'll eat when I'm hungry
I'll drink when I'm dry
Don't boss me or cross me
Or I'll spit in your eye.
I think what I please and
I say what I mean.
Edited by Guapa (30/06/2008 15:08)
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robinsondb
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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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capnsensible
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Loc: Atlantic
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Lord Nelson.
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Dockmaster
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Edward Allcard
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I could have done anything if I'd had the talent !
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anteak
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Loc: lowestoft
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The Smeetons
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A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn. EB
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JamesFrance
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Loc: Carcassonne & Sant Carles
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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.
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Dolphin of Menai
Beneteau Oceanis 311.
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Conachair
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Loc: Canaries
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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" 
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Silver_Fox
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Reged: 03/04/2006
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Loc: Cruising Tunisia
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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!
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Eagles may soar......but foxes don't get sucked into jet engines
http://Yacht.silverfox.googlepages.com
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vancouver_27
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Reged: 06/08/2006
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Annie Hall (or Hill) Voyaging on a small income.
Lin & Larry Pardey Cruising in Seraffyn.
Both favorites of mine.
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