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Old 17-10-2018, 07:26   #61
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Re: Outstanding Sailors Seamanship and Stunts

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Personally.. I suggest Boat Alexandra..
Done a helluva lot with little.. a modern day Slocum as far as I'm concerned.




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Marvin Creamer, American, circumnavigated with crew, without any navigational instruments, not even clock or compass. 1982-1984
Marvin Creamer, a Mariner Who Sailed Like the Ancients, Dies at 104

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...His expertise helped him become a history-making mariner, the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments. His 30,000-mile odyssey, in a 36-foot cutter with a small crew, made headlines worldwide on its completion in 1984...

But Professor Creamer, in the grip of an obsession that had held him for years, shunned even those newfangled contrivances, as well as a radio, a clock and a wristwatch.He chose instead to rely on his deep knowledge of the planet and its vagaries, and be guided by nothing more than wind, waves, the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night.

Under cloud-massed skies, he could divine his location from the color and temperature of the water, the presence of particular birds and insects and even, on one occasion, the song of a squeaky hatch.

Skills like these, he long maintained, had let the master mariners of antiquity answer the seafarer’s ever-present, life-or-death question — Where am I? — and in so doing sail safely round the world....

His 513-day journey would entail nearly a year on the sea, plus time in ports for repairs and reprovisioning. It would take the Globe Star to Capetown, South Africa; Hobart and Sydney, Australia; Whangara, New Zealand; and the Falkland Islands off Argentina before its triumphant return to Cape May on May 17, 1984 — an event that Professor Creamer gleefully described as “one small step back for mankind.”...
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Yann Quennet

boat Baluchon

boat 4 meters long, self designed and built,

sailing around the world

NOW

I admire Yann because he is doing great sailing.

https://taveacbaluchon.blogspot.com/

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