May be because he doesn't speak
English that his name has not been mentioned in this post...Geronimo Saint Martin spent 10 years of his life sailing a H20, a production 20 footer. Started from Buenos Aires singlehanded and went north, met my brother in Recife who suggested he stopped in Ft Lauderdale to meet me. He continued north, NY, Terranova, Icleand, he spent a
winter there and then took off towards the Spitbergen IS between 76 and 80.5 N. On his way he
lost his
mast, he filmed himself trying to
repair the damage, I think its on you tube, and was unable to do so as he needed someone to hold it while he secured it...Lo and behold, a large Russian
fishing boat stopped to help him, their
dinghy was larger than his
boat. He refuset to be loaded into their ship and continued toward
Norway where he worked at a
fishing factory, the next season he reached the islands and contiued to the ice wall. Back in Spitbergen he was given drawing from the
school children, to be given to
kids in Usuahia 54 degrees South, to where he went to fulfill the request. He is now back in Buenos Aires and La
India in a museum like Vito Dumas's double ender Leigh. Geronimos deserves being mentioned. Fair winds.
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