Joe wrote:
My dad had a house across the street from Ted in the Atlanta area.
I've meet him several times....never meet his wife(not sure if he was
married to her at the time), which is good. You are right, the guys got
crisma.



Long long time ago I was at a big regatta where a bunch of
"names" were invited for promotioanl reasons. Only a few
showed up and Ted Turner was one. During an interlude of
zero wind, the boats were all sitting around in a tight
pack, going nowhere... amny of the skippers stressing about
trying to inch ahead... Ted started telling jokes,
explaining in a fairly loud voice to his crew that this was
a tactic to break up everybody elses' concentration but that
*he* could sail just as well while telling them. But he is
also the man who took his mast down after the first day's
racing, to check on something he thought wasn't quite
right... most sailors would have shrugged it off.


Most famous sailor i've ever meet was Robin Graham.


Sounds like an interesting person. One of the big magazines
mentioned him in their 30 year retrospective, that he'd
become a rancher out West somewhere and had no interest in
talking sailing with any reporters.

DSK