
One of my dreams, would be to travel all thru
history at my liesure to see what actually happened for the first swirl of matter in the universe to the present. In 1968 I was 34 years old and Moitessier was 43. I was very intriqued by the Golden Globe
race and followed all the participants. I was very inspired and built a 50 foot
cutter yawl the DAEDALUS, with one beautiful helper in Santa Barbara. I actually copied the basic
hull from a book of model sailboats. I still have one 30" model and the book and have recently
sold my wonderful 50 ft. model which I singlehanded for over 25 years. I only had a month or so of previous experience prior to early 1975 when I started and launched on Aug. 23 1977. I did not know a 50 ft 23 ton
boat was difficult to singlehand. It seemed most everyone has all these complex ideas about saling. I sailed the entire
West coast several times then thru the
Panama Canal with my loving mostly seasick Bride to Gulf Shores
Alabama. A sailing paradise. The USCG certified the DAEDALUS for 22 passengers and I successfully chartered singlehanded for over 15 years. Of course I had gorgeous crew
member to keep the passengers happy. My old bones got a bit tired tired, so now I have a beautiful fast Rob Roy 23, that I modified to a
cutter yawl all roller furlling with a self tending
roller furling staysil So, you folks out there gotta know it isn't the size of the
boat it's how much you love her. I think somewhere back there I digressed a bit. attached is a Map from Wikipedia of Moitessier
circumnavigation. Note where he was in April 1969.
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