Who's your favorite Celebrity Sailor

[sailon46]

Loyke Peyron I think I spelled it right. He won the Rue De Rum solo in a 135 Tri
In seven days. He's the best

[skipperr100]

Definitely Capt. Ron........

[akprb]

William F. Buckley

[Mikado]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned JFK.

[Alan j]

James Arness hasn't been mentioned yet. He had a number of Kettenburgs named Sea Smoke.

[redhead]

Peter Seeger in Clearwater.

[Tayana42]

Ahab.



S/V B'Shert

[TheThunderbird]

Sir Francis Chichester

Bernard Moitessier & Joshua Slocum

Magellan & Cook

Joseph Conrad

Commanders Straulino & Elvstrom

[captlloyd]

Earnest Hemmingway.

[Scaramanga F25]

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, from Poland, who was the first female to circumnavigate the world and also Naomi James, from England, who was first to
do it racing solo non stop.
These women, tell your wives, broke the glass ceiling in offshore sailing.
Since them a few young teenage girls have repeated their achievements.

[S/V Reveille]

Stephen Stills
(Bandmate w/ David Crosby. Wrote "Southern Cross")

Johnny Carson, who spent much of his last years after retirement living on his boat.

Surprised no one has mentioned Ted Turner, who won the America's Cup. But he wouldn't be one of my favorites either.

[Canibul]

Bob Seegar?

Jesus of Nazareth?

[paulajayne]

Originally Posted by Canibul

Jesus of Nazareth?

Has to be a real person.

[cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Canibul

Bob Seegar?

Bob Seger has/had a Catalina 320, I was watching an interview with him on CBS Sunday Morning and he was on his boat.

Hal Holbrook was a actor who sailed a lot and did the transpac a few times.

[Brewgyver]

Originally Posted by Scott Berg

If he qualifies as a 'Celebrity', Hal Holbrook... took Dixie to the South Pacific! Fun book about it, Beer in the Bilges

I didn't know that, I had to check it out. Read a few pages on Google, and I'm hooked, thanks! BTW, Hal turned 91 two days ago.

I would say Holbrook definitely has celeb status, he was on Broadway a lot more than movies and TV. He played Mark Twain longer than Sam Clemens did!