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Originally Posted by Andrez
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great dinghy.. bought one in montana and towed it back to
new jersey with a bike. at the
sale the owner told me the original owner was a famous person so i did some
research.. whatta life this guy has led. he's about 86 now and goin strong but here's his story..
The previous owner was named Georges de Giorgio. He is donned as one of the true global explorers of our time.
“His father was Italian Count of Santoponte and his mother was of Chilean Indian/Spanish decent. Georges was born in a car wreck in
France on the way to
Italy in 1928. George’s father moved the
family to
Chile at the age of 4 where he grew up working in his father’s wooden ship boatyard.
In 1947 at the age of 17, Georges joined an American Expedition to Antarctica becoming the youngest person to ever spend a year there. Georges lived a month alone on the Palmer Peninsula plateau, was the first to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific by dogsled with a joint British/American party, and has a mountain named after him, de Giorgio Mountain. The expedition also was accompanied by two
women, this is the first time
women had wintered in Antarctica. Did Georges really sleep with 50% of the women on a continent? (yes)
Because Georges was Chilean, his presence secured the Chilean claim to Antarctica. So Georges returned the next year as technical adviser for a Chilean
government polar expeditions.
Georges then spent the next 30 years sailing the world’s oceans. Georges was the navigator on the ship Mischief for the famous
English explorer HW Tilman. He also hunted for Sir Francis Drakes
lost treasure on Robinson Crusoe Island.
Georges was on a boat
offshore of
Chile when the 1960 Chilean Tsunami hit. His boat survived landing in a field while all others were smashed on shore.
Georges lived and raised his
children in Acapulco. He was the Harbor Master for the 1968
Olympics in
Mexico, a dive master, worked numerous years for Alter Hobi molding Hobi Cats, and won the
San Diego to Acapulco sailboat
race.
Georges chaperoned the Olympic Gold Canadian Synchronized swim team in the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles.
Georges was friends with Marlon Brando, Cliff Robertson, and also dated the actresses Stephanie Powers and Irene Papas. Georges has met Nobel Prize winners Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Nerudo, and Gabriela Mistral. Georges was Chiles first motion picture actor having roles in La Caleta Olvidada, Love Has Many Faces, and The Big Cube. [He also stars in 2-3 other movies].
Georges is also fluent in three languages French, Spanish, and
English. He was recently featured in a documentary on the expedition to Antarctica called The Ends of the Earth, Finn Ronne’s Antarctica (
www.ronneantarcticexplorers.com).
For the past eight years, George worked at the Lewis and Clark interpretive Center and Cascade Historical Society in Great Falls. George truly is the most interesting man in the world…”
There is a ton left out of this biography, but George keeps dropping bombs on us. I’m not sure if there’s anything he hasn’t done, anywhere he hasn’t been, or anyone he doesn’t know.
This man was smuggled out of Chile into
England, I believe. He was trapped in a snow storm on a mountain, for four days, at the age of 11 with three other boy scouts (one with a broken leg).
He learned to fly a plane back in the 30s before he even knew how to drive a car.
He still bikes everywhere and goes for daily hikes, and is knowledgeable about
history.
Sure it's PVC & won't last as long as Hypalon but at this 
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