Celebrity Sailors--Who would you have liked to Sail with

[S-V SAGA]

Nikki Henderson https://www.instagram.com/_nikkihenderson/

[barnakiel]

I think the use of Celebrities is improper here.



I do not think the Pardey's would agree to your definition. Bombard might dislike this take too.


Celebrities are people like the Delos.


The Pardeys, Bombard and the company are/were SAILORS.


barnakiel

[robert sailor]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

I think the use of Celebrities is improper here.



I do not think the Pardey's would agree to your definition. Bombard might dislike this take too.


Celebrities are people like the Delos.


The Pardeys, Bombard and the company are/were SAILORS.


barnakiel

[barnakiel]

Of the famous navigators, I would love to sail with:


- Barker,

- Riou,
- Read,
- Malinovsky,

- Bligh (after he parted ways with Bounty),
- Dampier,
- Bougainville,
- Gerbault,


Can I go on ?


;-)
b.

[Knotical]

Originally Posted by robert sailor

I can understand you wanting to spend time with Einstein but sailing? The guy was not a good sailor!

He would probably analyze speed vector, velocity, drag etc too much and take the fun out of sailing 😜

[JPA Cate]

Okay, here's someone so competent I drool, wishing I were so: Suzanne Cuber-Hurphey. Just Google her, first woman singlehander to do the NW Passage! Certainly one of Jim's and mine hero(ine) sailors! A true, conservative sailor, who loves the sea and sailing...and combats her fears head on, when they arise! Chapeau!

Ann

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

Okay, here's someone so competent I drool, wishing I were so: Suzanne Cuber-Hurphey. Just Google her, first woman singlehander to do the NW Passage! Certainly one of Jim's and mine hero(ine) sailors! A true, conservative sailor, who loves the sea and sailing...and combats her fears head on, when they arise! Chapeau!

Ann

Yep, Susanne is a true inspiration for the few that know her or of her. We've had the pleasure of time with her on board her boat and ours, but never sailed together. Ann didn't mention her participation in the Longue Route event last year where she followed up her NW passage solo with 1 1/2 circumnavigations alone and unsupported, and following Bernard's lead, continued on around instead of sailing up the Atlantic to the finish in France. Eventually stopped in Tassie after sumpin' like 280 days at sea. We asked her if we could help her with her to do list... and there wasn't one! Didn't even take on fuel... just repaired her JSD and bought freshies, hung out a while and then pressed onward. Lots of adventures since then, including being on the rocks at Reunion Is and suffering huge damage to Nehaj... then sailed on to South Africa hoping to do major repair, but no go, and then onward up the Atlantic, ending up in Holland recently, returning her boat to the builder in Sneek for rehab. All without sponsership, Gofunds or any publicity.

What a sailor, what a gal, what a great person to know! I'd sail with her any day... but she prefers solo!

Jim

[deltaten]

Celebrities that sail? Lee Marvin
Sailing celebrities? The Pardeys
U-Toob "celebrities? Jules and Susan of S/V Emerald Steel and Magnus and Wendy of S/V Nutshell

[Palarran]

Humphrey Bogart
Ernest Hemingway (fishing)
Steven Colbert
Alex Thomson

[LittleWing77]

This is a fun thread, Time Theory! Thanks for starting it!

LittleWing77

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by navdi

He would probably analyze speed vector, velocity, drag etc too much and take the fun out of sailing 😜

Not to mention there is an old physics story we all hear in undergraduate lectures.

Once, working on the Manhattan project, Oppenheimer, Einstein and Fermi, I think, were riding in a car. They got a flat and none of the most brilliant minds in physics could change the tire.

So, you’d definitely be the engineer on this sailing trip. Lol

[LittleWing77]

Maybe it's endemic among brilliant minds, Chotu...

My sister has a double masters - one in Environmental Biology and the other... geez, I forget. But in other words, a brain the size of a planet!

While driving her Honda Civic and CHEWING GUM once... she drove the car off the road! (We still tease her about it.)

No more gum for La-La!
LittleWing77

[barnakiel]

BTW I think I have seen a video of Einstein sailing a boat. So he might as well have been a decent sailor.


Have never read his biography yet though.



b.

[slug]

Originally Posted by Time Theory

If you had a chance to sail with any Celebrity / Sailors living or deceased who would you chose?

For me, I would like to sail with or have had the opportunity to sail with (in no specific order):

Drake Roberts
Jim & Ann Cate
Larry & Lin Pardey
Alain Bombard
Brian Keith, Buddy Ebsen, Stearling Hayden. Although these three guys were Hollywood actors, all three seemed to be down to earth people who loved to sail.

Loïck Peyron

https://sailing-legends.com/about#bio

[robert sailor]

Originally Posted by navdi

He would probably analyze speed vector, velocity, drag etc too much and take the fun out of sailing 😜

There is no question he would have understood everything about the science and he did love to sail but he simply missed on the art part. From what I’ve read he was one of the slower sailors out there. Nothing wrong with slow mind you.