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Captain Joshua Slocum is credited as being the first man to sail solo
around the world. And yet he took passengers aboard for day outings
during his circumnavigation. Oh, my! He didn't really sail "solo" at
all! Except that he was careful to, if I recall correctly, return his
guests to their point of boarding before continuing his solo effort.

If Zac accepted a tow to get repairs, his effort will still count as
an accomplishment as long as he returns to the point where the tow
began before continuing his solo. It would only be terminated if he
was attempting a non-stop circumnavigation and had to stop for any
reason.

Good Lord, Karin! Talk about bankrupt logic. Using your logic, Zac
might as well sail to a starting point two miles off the coast from the
California marina where he started. Then he can be towed around the
world back to that very starting point then sail back in and he would
then have sailed alone around the world.


Wilbur Hubbard

You missed my point. He would have to return to the point where he
accepted the tow and then continue around the world on his own.

All I did is reverse the tow and the sail making it ludicrously obvious
that unless one sails the whole way around the world one is not sailing
around the world. You can't snip out a chunk here and a chunk there of
the voyage and claim those chunks don't count. You haven't completed your
voyage unless and until you go the entire way by yourself under your own
motive power. This is so obvious. Only other cheaters and shirklaws would
claim otherwise.

Wilbur Hubbard



Methinks you are being deliberately obtuse. If one returns to the point at
which the tow began before continuing the voyage, there is no missing
chunk.

Oh, and in Captain Slocum's day, an engine meant steam power. I think he
would have installed a diesel if they had been available in his era.

I'm done with this this one. Fire away if you wish.

It's a good thing you threw in the towel because I was about to hit you with
the big guns.

Using your idiotic premise, instead of placing those waypoints two miles out
in the ocean from the port lets place them 2,000 miles out in the ocean.
Then let's tow the boat back and forth from port to these 2,000 mile out in
the ocean waypoints which amount to a small circle of waypoints
approximately 2,000 miles in diameter. You seem to be claiming that if one
sails around this 2,000 mile diameter circle while getting towed into and
out of port two thousand miles at a time when you feel like getting a steak
or watching a movie or when you get tired of sailing as long as you sail the
circle you have sailed around the world alone.

Duh! Double Duh!!

Wilbur Hubbard



A true circumnavigation of the world must pass through two points
antipodean to each other.' Norris McWhirter, founding editor of
Guinness, 1971.

I don't give a damm if you get towed to point X wherever X is so long as
you then circumnavigate by the above definition, crossing your own
outward track after X on your return before getting another tow. That's
an unassisted circumnavigation if the round track from X to X was
unassisted. Its only commercial interests that force a record breaking
circumnavigation for example to start and finish in specific ports. Now
stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, Wilma.