interloper
Well-Known Member
The current issue of Yachting Monthly features an article about a gentleman named Roy Starkey who built his own ferrocement sailboat during the 1970s and set off around the world with his girlfriend and very little money. While in Tanzania, his girlfriend tied a weight to herself and jumped overboard. After an appropriate mourning period, Roy placed an ad for a new girlfriend/sailing mate. This approach seems to have worked for him. He has spent the last several decades wandering about the world on his boat with a string of girlfriends and very little money.
In his ad, Roy stated that the applicant must:
- be a girl
- have a non-South African passport (because Brazil and many Caribbean islands refuse entry to South Africans)
- be less than 5ft 4in (because the spare bunk is a bit short)
- have no sailing experience (I don't need to be told how to run the boat)
- have some money, including enough for a flight home (otherwise if push came to shove I'd have to pay for it)
I wouldn't expect this approach to work today. I would think that the typical young lady of today would prefer to buy her own sailboat and be her own captain. Just in case, I've passed the article along to my young cousin who just bought a Dufour Arpege and has dreams of voyaging about the world.
In his ad, Roy stated that the applicant must:
- be a girl
- have a non-South African passport (because Brazil and many Caribbean islands refuse entry to South Africans)
- be less than 5ft 4in (because the spare bunk is a bit short)
- have no sailing experience (I don't need to be told how to run the boat)
- have some money, including enough for a flight home (otherwise if push came to shove I'd have to pay for it)
I wouldn't expect this approach to work today. I would think that the typical young lady of today would prefer to buy her own sailboat and be her own captain. Just in case, I've passed the article along to my young cousin who just bought a Dufour Arpege and has dreams of voyaging about the world.
