Does Dane Ellen sail?

[fredrussell]

…Asking for gossipy stuff I feel is creepy and not a normal question about if a famous person still sails.

It’s about context though. The phrase ‘gossipy stuff’, made by a SAILOR on a SAILING forum with regard to a very famous SAILOR - is likely to refer to sailing related gossip, no? I’d be quite interested to learn what any ex Vendee Globe sailor sails recreationally - am I to be added to the YBW sexual offenders register?

 

[Biggles Wader]

Anyway----That Robin Knox thingumy bloke----handsome chap, is he still sailing and anyone know where he hangs out these days? Asking for a friend of course.

 

[obmij]

I think it's a reasonable question - perhaps clumsily posed.

It was a pretty dramatic era in ocean racing. Lot's of British involvement and it came as close to the mainstream as it ever has in my lifetime (I missed the RKJ golden globe era). If you were involved in the industry and reading the mags then chances are that the personalities made a big impression. They certainly did for me,

A month or so ago I found myself wondering what happened to Lawrie Smith? Breaker of 24 hour records and loser of masts. Still going? Still a living advert for silk cut? Off my radar now but through memory and interest still part of my life at some point.

Pete Goss, Ellen Mac, Tony Bullimore - I always looked out for their projects and was glad when they did well and sad when the fronts fell off their boats unexpectedly. They still flit into my mind occasionally.

For future reference - avoid the word 'gossipy'

 

[Mister E]

Tony Bull

I think it's a reasonable question - perhaps clumsily posed.

It was a pretty dramatic era in ocean racing. Lot's of British involvement and it came as close to the mainstream as it ever has in my lifetime (I missed the RKJ golden globe era). If you were involved in the industry and reading the mags then chances are that the personalities made a big impression. They certainly did for me,

A month or so ago I found myself wondering what happened to Lawrie Smith? Breaker of 24 hour records and loser of masts. Still going? Still a living advert for silk cut? Off my radar now but through memory and interest still part of my life at some point.

Pete Goss, Ellen Mac, Tony Bullimore - I always looked out for their projects and was glad when they did well and sad when the fronts fell off their boats unexpectedly. They still flit into my mind occasionally.

For future reference - avoid the word 'gossipy'

Tony Bullimore I remember the coverage of the rescue but he never seemed to appear in the national press train that I remember.
So many sailors seem to get press coverage but are then forgotten about.
Even the ones doing other extraordinary things.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Tony Bull

Tony Bullimore I remember the coverage of the rescue but he never seemed to appear in the national press train that I remember.
So many sailors seem to get press coverage but are then forgotten about.
Even the ones doing other extraordinary things.

Tony died a few years back, sadly.

 

[laika]

Tony Bullimore I remember the coverage of the rescue but he never seemed to appear in the national press train that I remember.

20-ish years ago, not long after I acquired my sailing habit, I read about the Golden Globe and realised that the person on the Clapham omnibus had probably never heard of Robin Knox-Johnston, never mind moitessier, so I started asking friends and colleagues to name all the famous yachtspeople they could think of and what they were famous for.

Everyone got Ellen MacArthur (“sailing round the world”) in distant second was Francis Chichester (also “sailing round the world”) but the surprise was close behind Chichester was Tony Bullimore (or, “that bloke who got rescued..what was his name?”). No-one else really got a look in.

Obviously that was only 8 years after Bullimore’s Vendee capsize and I doubt he’d be in the rankings now but he definitely entered the national consciousness.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

He's something of a folk hero in Bristol. Made money in nightclubs, but put a lot back, in community work, I think.

 

[doug748]

Tony Bull

Tony Bullimore I remember the coverage of the rescue but he never seemed to appear in the national press train that I remember.
So many sailors seem to get press coverage but are then forgotten about.
Even the ones doing other extraordinary things.

We always seemed to have someone to look out for in the Ostar. Remember Jeff Houlgrave? He is still around and probably sailing .
Then there was the Sailing Policeman - - was he called Phillips?
These guys were building experimental boats before it became a multi million pound industry, fun times.

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[potentillaCO32]

He's something of a folk hero in Bristol. Made money in nightclubs, but put a lot back, in community work, I think.

I think he owned the granary and/or the locarno