DSK wrote:
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.

He's was in the PNW in 81, I meet him San Francisco.

He was very quiet and I think burned out early with all the fame as a
teen, still married to Patti, the girl he meet in OZ.
..
His Dad, Nat Geo, ect ...all profited more off his adventures then he
did.... I think.

He has a comfortable living on his book royalties, and want's to be
left alone. A buddie on my ship was a close friend and knew I was a
fan of his. I asked him about his cabin fever episode in the doldrums
where he was throwing his sails in the water and almost set the boat
ablaze , and he said it was all true. Maybe he was pressured to hard
at the time and that quenched his desire for any more sailing. I could
tell he was un-comfortable talking about the whole deal. I think if he
had had it his way, he would have stopped in OZ and stayed with Patti.

Joe


DSK