On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:52:46 -0400, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·"
åke wrote:

"Gogarty" wrote in message
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In article , åke says...


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Good Grief, another fake circumnavigation. A circumnavigation
is defined as transiting the three great capes. Using the Panama
Canal is cheating. Using the Suez Canal is cheating.

Who decreed that? Seems to me a true circumnavigation should take place
at the earth's waist not its poles. So going via the canals is the true
circumnavigation.




"Can someone clarify the term for this feat that I once read? An official
Circumnavigation claim can only be made by passing South of all the 5
capes on the globe and also crossing the antopidal point whereby you
will have crossed the equator once?

"I think I saw this at about the time Jesse Martin completed his
Circumnavigation? I don't wish to take the feat away from anyone who
attempts it as I can only imagine how tough it would be based on my
commercial fishing experiences at those latitudes - well done."

Source:

http://forum.sailingscuttlebutt.com/...similar_P9593/

Being a traditionalist, I agree with the above definition of a *sailing*
circumnavigation.

Motoring through canals isn't sailing, IMO. That's cheating. What if one
was going to circumnavigate around the world in an airplane. What if
he landed the airplane somewhere and had it placed on a railroad car
and shipped through some mountain pass and resumed the flight on
the other side? I bet even you would agree that's not a real circumnavigation
in an airplane.

Dragging a sailboat through the Panama Canal is NOT SAILING.

Since the above route south of the Capes can be navigated the entire
way under sail and the canal way may not, how presumptuous for anybody
in a sailboat to claim he circumnavigated under sail?


I see. You read it on the Internet which apparently proves it true.
But additionally makes it easy for you sitting in your permanently
moored boat to disparage someone who is out voyaging.

Something that you are apparently either too inapt or too terrified to
attempt.

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Cheers,

Bruce