Twister_Ken
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Solo around the Americas
http://www.pbo.co.uk/news/534323/don-t-miss-tales-of-an-extraordinary-voyage
http://www.pbo.co.uk/news/534323/don-t-miss-tales-of-an-extraordinary-voyage
Extraordinary voyage
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BlueSkyNick
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I don't see the point in that. If you going take yonks to sail round the Americas, you would do well to stop at the many interesting places along the way.
LONG_KEELER
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Short but brilliant ! Thanks.
Interesting life before sailing.
The more you hear from these bods, the more you feel that we are not making full use of the gift.
Loved the bit about the Mormons providing all his food. Apparently, they are experts in freeze dried food.
davidej
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This chap has just been on the Libby Purvis chat show Beeb R4
he had an interesting life even before he set off.
he had an interesting life even before he set off.
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dylanwinter
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he seemed like a very well adjusted and witty bloke
worth a listen chaps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvps1
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I think the point was to do something that will earn him cash and stuff for years to come. I wish I had thought of that when I was younger.
V1701
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Yus. I got the 'cheap seats' at the £5 GXSA presentation on Friday night, and Matt Rutherford is certainly worth the money!
A remarkable tale, remarkably well told. And lots of food for thought. There's a 'whole shed-load' of simple, effective seamanship there.... I was amused by his tale of the Bering Sea, and him standing in the cockpit, his back to the cabin, protecting the companionway doors against repeated blows from breaking seas with his body, and awarding each heavy pounding breaker with marks out of ten - "The cockpit half-full, that's hardly trying. 3 out of 10! This was a good one, winded me. 7 out of 10!" He had intermittent resupply rendezvous here and there to replace critical components, such as a Volvo engine starting handle - and bottles of 'Screech'. As for his food stores, 309 days on a diet of Mormon creamed broccoli is closer to purgatory than I want to go.
It was intriguing to note which 'points' along the route he mentions in some detail. 'Close inshore at Recife' was one where he came very close to quitting and going ashore, but that may have been due more to the bikini-clad girls visible on the beach than other systems failures....
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Thanks for the link and to the OP for posting. Very, very interesting, well worth listening to, recommend it. Quite inspiring, to be honest.
