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I may have missed something in the last day or two. Is someone saying that
the Semtons are less then the perfect example of seamanship and skill?
Robert Gainer


>From: Lu Abel 
>Reply-To: Navigation Mailing List 
>To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
>Subject: Re: What do offshore recreational navigators really do?
>Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:36:43 -0700
>
>Do these folks count as mariners made of stern stuff or simply fools??
>
>Lu Abel
>
>Peter Fogg wrote:
>
>>Reminds me of Beryl and Miles Smeeton who deliberately sailed
>>without a radio. They didn't want anyone having to put themselves
>>in danger of their account.
>>
>>Which, as it turns out, was thoughtful of them. They sailed from Melbourne
>>after attending the Olympic games there in 1956 towards Cape Horn, were
>>pitchpoled while deep in the Southern Ocean, then got themselves to
>>Valparaiso under jury rig where they repaired the boat as best they could
>>in
>>the naval shipyard. Set sail south, back towards Cape Horn and were rolled
>>again. They treated this as another temporary setback. Years later they
>>finally managed to sail around the Cape from east to west during another
>>passage in the same boat.
>>
>>Guess that's stern stuff. The subject line is apt.
>>
>>

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