Who's your favorite Celebrity Sailor

[Comix Bay]

Originally Posted by Tayana42

John Wayne's boat was/is Wild Goose. She is now a harbor tour boat in Newport Beach.


S/V B'Shert

Ooooops, sorry, you are correct, mental block there or 'fingers going faster than the brain'. Gray Ghost is the railway car up here on the the old Canfor Logging line at Woss Camp.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by Kim Gregory

Top Ten Sailing songs: Top 10 Sailing Songs - the Winners - Messing About In Sailboats
1. "Son of a Son of a Sailor" - Jimmy Buffet
2. "Southern Cross" - Crosby Still & Nash
3. "Sloop John B" - Beach Boys
4. "Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
5. "Changes in latitudes" - Jimmy Buffet
5. "If I had a boat" - Lyle Lovett
6. "Come Sail Away" - Styx
7. "Brandy " - Looking Glass
8."The Mary Ellen Carter" - Stan Rogers
9. "Barrett's Privateers" - Stan Rogers
10. 'Sail Away' - David Gray

Cant believe the list left off Cool Change by the Little River Band.

[Reefmagnet]

Ditto for "Sailing" by rockin' Rod Stewart

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[pcmm]

None other than "Sir Robin Knox-Johnston" first man to prove you you could circumnavigate nonstop solo style!

[reed1v]

Marilyn Monroe.

[Mikado]

Hugh Downs of CBS 20/20 fame. He wrote a couple of books about his sailing adventures.

[S/V Reveille]

Originally Posted by Mark Killam

Actually I don't think stills wrote Southern Cross he tweaked a song by the Curtis brothers quite a bit and it became southern cross

You're exactly right. He took the music from the Curtis brothers and tweaked it, but I believe he wrote or changed the lyrics.
Good catch...

[hamburking]

Joshua Slocum.
He inspired me to cast off the bow lines and cross an ocean.

More recently, Jessica Watson,
She inspired my daughter to sail.

[Tayana42]

How about Jeanne Socrates? Solo woman sailor circumnavigated at 70. 👍


S/V B'Shert

[sailorboy1]

My favorite is:

Dana

my wife!

[Navicula]

Noah.......the one with the ark and all those animals

[Brewgyver]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

Sterling Hayden 'cause he was the real deal.

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Yes, indeed he was, had his Master's ticket long before he was an actor. Ever seen "Three Days of the Condor?" The CIA director, played by John Housman, is talking about the old days during WW2, when the agency was the OSS. "We sailed the Adriatic with a movie star." That was Sterling Hayden.

The real deal, and then some, but he had no kind words about 'cruisers.'

[powsmias]

Originally Posted by Kim Gregory

Yes, Bogie inspired me, I passed Cronkite on the public dock in Norfolk in 1982, but the best Canadian celebrity sailor is

Gordon Lightfoot ( had a 39 foot named 'Sundown' ).

"You wouldn't buy a fiberglass guitar, would you," Carpenter asked Lightfoot, as he showed him plans for the 45 foot 'Golden Goose'.

Lightfoot titled his next album "Endless Wire," after seeing the task before the electrician on 'Golden Goose'.

Link: This Goose Is Golden

He wrote 'THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD'

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feeling

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
Twas the witch of November come stealing
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the Gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck saying
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya
At seven PM a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good to know ya
The captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

Top Ten Sailing songs: Top 10 Sailing Songs - the Winners - Messing About In Sailboats
1. "Son of a Son of a Sailor" - Jimmy Buffet
2. "Southern Cross" - Crosby Still & Nash
3. "Sloop John B" - Beach Boys
4. "Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
5. "Changes in latitudes" - Jimmy Buffet
5. "If I had a boat" - Lyle Lovett
6. "Come Sail Away" - Styx
7. "Brandy " - Looking Glass
8."The Mary Ellen Carter" - Stan Rogers
9. "Barrett's Privateers" - Stan Rogers
10. 'Sail Away' - David Gray

Incredible piece of work by Lightfoot and i'm gonna add gilligan to the mix, and my old man.

[Paul J. Nolan]

Originally Posted by StuM

That's Borge.

Thanks Stu. It was late and I confess I didn't look it up.

Paul

[Tellie]

Originally Posted by LEOCAT66

POPEYE

Adam Troy / Gardner McKay

Dang Skippy!!!


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