Fate ?

[Pelagic]

Originally Posted by Christian Van H

I'm proud to live in New Jersey, the state Joshua Slocum was jailed in for exposing himself to a young girl... Actually, I'm not at all proud to live in New Jersey...

I want to see Gord prove THIS one wrong...

That wasn’t Joshua Slocum, it was another singlehander… "Peter File"...

[Christian Van H]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

That wasn’t Joshua Slocum, it was another singlehander… "Peter File"...

Good one!!! Probably more than one reason they're called "single handers"...

Awe, snap! Did I just go there? Yup!

[Jim Cate]

g'Day All,

I too am an admirer of JS, and have read hs book several times over the years. Good stuff when taken with a grain of salt. For an interesting different view of the old man, I (years ago) read a biograpy of him written by his daughter, Jessie Slocum Joyce. In this, she paints a picture of a dissolusioned fellow who spent many years after his crcumnavigation hauling Spray around to fairs, etc, trying to make a buck from his noterioty. I don't rmember much of the detail, but it seemed like a bad end for a great seaman.

Cheers,

Jim and Ann s/v Insatiable II on the hard at Bayview, NSW, Oz