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Poor Skippy!
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 05:42:35 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote: On 11/2/2015 4:35 AM, wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 16:59:25 -0700, Paul Cassel He has no one and obviously no one cares for him. -- Clearly a bitterness shines through his posts about Skip. I think you hit it square. The pitiful thing is that people have made extremely long voyages in boats smaller than his. Here is a reference to a young Hungarian who circumnavigated in a 6 metre sail boat. I met the guy in Thailand and he is a nice down to earth bloke, Not the "look at me, I am a hero type" at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h167pT8u_Cg So he could go cruising, if he wanted to do something other then just play the fool on the Internet. -- Cheers, Bruce |
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Poor Skippy!
On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:18:18 -0500,
wrote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 06:36:28 +0700, wrote: The pitiful thing is that people have made extremely long voyages in boats smaller than his. Here is a reference to a young Hungarian who circumnavigated in a 6 metre sail boat. I met the guy in Thailand and he is a nice down to earth bloke, Not the "look at me, I am a hero type" at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h167pT8u_Cg So he could go cruising, if he wanted to do something other then just play the fool on the Internet. === Down in the Caribbean islands we've seen boats as small as 22 feet that have sailed trans-Atlantic from Europe. Years ago a couple of Brits crossed in an 18 ft. boat and I suspect that even smaller have by now. I asked the Hungarian about crossing large bodies of water and he said something that (I suspect) most people don't think about. He said that carrying enough food and water meant he had to sleep in the cockpit for the first part of any crossing because the cabin was full of food, water and supplies. When I saw him in Phuket, and I'm sure that he had only come up from Singapore, there was just about enough room in the cabin to lay down on the floor :-) -- Cheers, Bruce |
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Poor Skippy!
On 11/3/2015 3:55 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:18:18 -0500, wrote: Years ago a couple of Brits crossed in an 18 ft. boat and I suspect that even smaller have by now. I asked the Hungarian about crossing large bodies of water and he said something that (I suspect) most people don't think about. He said that carrying enough food and water meant he had to sleep in the cockpit for the first part of any crossing because the cabin was full of food, water and supplies. When I saw him in Phuket, and I'm sure that he had only come up from Singapore, there was just about enough room in the cabin to lay down on the floor :-) -- The Brits have an informal class of small boats which do long ocean voyages. They're called cockleshell boats and resemble a large row boat with most of the open covered so a small, can't stand in it, cabin exists. This, of course, makes the open ocean sailing feasible or the boat would swamp at the first blow. I met a guy with such a boat. He'd sailed from Vancouver, BC to SoCal. He had no issues sailing anywhere in the world in his little wooden craft. -paul --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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