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Re: What do offshore recreational navigators really do?
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 7, 14:05 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 7, 14:05 +1000
> From: Frank Reed > The risk to you and yours and also (not unimportantly) > the risk to your rescuers will be minimized if you > can give them your exact current position. 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.
