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Forum: The Library 04-08-2017, 13:30
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Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

When I read about the first round the world yacht race, Chay Blyth, had to be given a hand to raise his sails at the start of the race, and apart from rowing the Atlantic, his only sailing experience...
Forum: The Library 04-08-2017, 13:25
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Thanks for your comment, I read Knox Johnstone's story, at one point in the Pacific, he had to go underneath the boat, with some copper strip, and cotton, and nail it on to the hull to stop the water...
Forum: The Library 12-07-2017, 13:20
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Oh you can also still check the boat name on the US coastguard website (well it was there last time I looked) I didn't bother getting the title until I got to the UK, and then they would only give me...
Forum: The Library 12-07-2017, 13:16
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I don't like the way people suggest falsifying a log book. I was in the merchant navy for years, and its a legal document, I have the original, that was written in pen, I typed this exactly from it....
Forum: The Library 12-07-2017, 13:05
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

It was very interesting, made more interesting because I didn't have any money, or a lot of the equipment I should have had. Its not the boat on the cover, didn't have a photo of it at sea, so...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 13:39
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Well, I also wrote in the daily mail about how to get a gun into the UK, legally I wrote it due to the existing loophole that dates from about 1965, (which the home office quoted me) Ok it would be a...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 12:20
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

The one thing I remember most about the trip, was the sail down to Antigua from Bermuda, the weather (when I got away from Bermuda and got south) was great, the boat was racing along, and I was just...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 12:16
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

It was held in Bermuda until I left, they gave me receipt for the gun and ammunition and gave me it back when I left, other places I went to, I didn't get asked to declare anything such as Guada...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 11:17
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Let me explain, I had no life raft, no dinghy, and no hope if the boat went down, shooting ones self would be a lot quicker than drowning, besides, I also thought, dosent matter where you are, guns...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 11:14
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

There was a bit of story to it, about eleven years ago, I was making money in property, and I wanted to sail across the atlantic from the USA to the UK, I hired two dick heads, who bullshitted at...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 11:06
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I forgot to say, I read that book too, "the kindness of strangers" its what Blanch Dubois says in the play Street Car Named Desire, I read the book saw the play, and the film with Marlon Brando, it...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 09:28
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I put a combined answer to a few questions as somehow when I logged in it wouldn't let me answer individual questions, but as i said below, Guns and Tack in Glasgow, or it might have been Tack and...
Forum: The Library 10-07-2017, 09:25
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

What happened to the 30 06, well, that was supposed to stay aboard the boat as part of boats equipment, that is what the UK home office told me was to happen. I had asked to carry a handgun, but...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 13:04
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

You are of course very correct, only thing I can argue with you about, is I had every tool aboard I could need, I even had two paslode nail guns, which one did get used to fix a broken tiller. I...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 11:27
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Being ex merchant navy, I knew it wasn't that unusual for one ship to ask another for supplies at sea, we had people coming alongside to get sugar, we stopped and swapped cases of beer to a fishing...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 10:57
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I did have a great experience, things you couldn't buy, I pulled the anchor line one night in Bermuda and I have never seen fosforesence like that, every time i squeezed the warp, light just came out...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 10:47
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I had a hand held garmin GPS, I also had a sextant, and a set of tables, I had no charts for anywhere, but I had two atlantic pilot guides, the one I bought which was an RYA one, which wasn't that...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 10:35
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

The voyage was just bad, only reason I left the USA when I did, was I got stopped driving a moped while drunk, blew a point 26, and the judge threw the book at me, which included a years probation...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 10:15
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Every run took longer than expected, but the last one, Bermuda to the UK, took 57 days, that was just to Castlebay Island of Barra, I still had to get to the mainland. I had predicted, 30-35 days, I...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 08:51
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Also the captain of the gas tanker cueball, or Qball, had to re supply me half way across the atlantic, as I was out of water, and food, so we did a RAS replenishment at sea, gave me about forty...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 08:46
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I read about crowhurst, the reason he killed himself, was he knew he would get caught. You could fake a log book, but it would take an awful lot of work, for it to stand up to scrutiny, besides, Tom...
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 06:59
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

Also the entire amount of money I had to my name, when I left the USA, was fifty Euros, and the trip lasted from october 2013, to july 2014
Forum: The Library 09-07-2017, 03:28
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Re: Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=troubles+with+tribulation

I just spoke to the guy who published it online, he says, it takes longer to come through...
Forum: The Library 08-07-2017, 17:14
Replies: 56
Views: 19,233
Posted By atlantical
Very Low Budget Atlantic Crossing

I said this once before on this site, and got some replies ridiculing me. I couldn't find the original thread, but what I said was "boat 8500 dollars, re fit 3000 dollars, food 200 dollars,...
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