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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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