Reenactment of voyage made in 1964.....

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Fifty three years ago a smallwooden sailing boat set off from Chicherster hrbour and crossed to Wooten creek.This is a tripI made with m father without any shore side assistance and with the minimalof navigation aids or weather forcasting in the days before GPS.We took a packed lunch with Tizer with some pasties as back up.The entire trip took five hours as we where dogged by ligt winds and fog but made our destination on the button and my auntie laid on cucumber sandwiches and tea.I realize this is a tough call and it wontbe easy......we will be using he same navigational stuff that was available to us then and apart from a camera crew and support boat it will be as true as possible to that day in 1964.......I will be kited out in my old school blazer and shorts with a kapok life jacket to add a touch of what it was all about.
 
Good for you!

In the 1980's, when the J class Endevour was on the slip at Calshot about to be launched after many years ashore, I was at Cowes week with my chum, his dad sat in a deck chair on the green watching the racing. We were let loose in a Tinker Tramp with a 4hp Mariner.

We thought, it would be interesting to go see the J class, so off we went, across the Solent to Calshot, in the Tinker, we had spare petrol, I had a Boots 226X Instamatic camera, we had lifejackets, but we wern't wearing them, nor were they inflated. Made it there and back no bother.
 
One of my first big voyages was from Falmouth via Newlyn to Scilly in a Hurley 22 sometime in the 60s ... only had a chart and a pencil and I wasn't too sure about the pencil! ... oh and one of those Decca gadgets but I didn't know how to work it! Remember those? In spite of everything I got there and back and had several good nights in the Mermaid and the back bar in the Atlantic ... met a nice girl too!
Wasn't rounding The Horn but probably felt like it at the time!
 
Wansworth said:
Fifty three years ago a smallwooden sailing boat set off from Chicherster hrbour and crossed to Wooten creek.This is a tripI made with m father without any shore side assistance and with the minimalof navigation aids or weather forcasting in the days before GPS.We took a packed lunch with Tizer with some pasties as back up.The entire trip took five hours as we where dogged by ligt winds and fog but made our destination on the button and my auntie laid on cucumber sandwiches and tea.I realize this is a tough call and it wontbe easy......we will be using he same navigational stuff that was available to us then and apart from a camera crew and support boat it will be as true as possible to that day in 1964.......I will be kited out in my old school blazer and shorts with a kapok life jacket to add a touch of what it was all about.
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Heh! I should be a famous celeb... Done a few voyages like that, except Tizer never figured in the ships stores.
Actually, in '63 we did Burnam on Crouch to Alderney in the CIs and back, perhaps I should be Knighted? I will await the missive from the PM's office.
 
Excellent idea, and I too salute you for your bravery.
I presume you are working on your passage plan and risk assessment and will file them where appropriate.
Oh, and if you should meet one of those big new grey boats outside Portsmouth, (the ones with large empty flight decks) just remember that steam gives way to sail and carry on regardless! They will know what to do.
 
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