Round the world in a Leisure 17?

[Slow_boat]

I saw a newspaper cutting the other day detailing how a couple had been found dead on a yacht off Tunisia, him lashed to the wheel and her lashed below. Speculation was that they may have lashed themselves down in rough weather then somehow died of dehydration.

The first twist in the story was that the (married) male had told his family he was off to sail round the world alone for three years and the (widowed) woman had told her adult offspring that she was sailing off with a man to set up home in Italy.

The second twist was that the picture over the caption 'death yacht' looked very like a leisure 17!

No one tried sailing round the world two up in a Leisure 17, did they?

 

[Black Sheep]

More to the point, no-one tried fitting a wheel to a Leisure 17 did they?

 

[reginaldon]

Beat me to it River Rat

 

[Dyflin]

There's a guy sailing around the world in a Leisure 22, but he's out in the pacific at the moment. http://www.valkyrien.tk/

 

[phatcat1]

Bondage gone wrong??

Whole new meaning to extreme watersports!!!!!!!!

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[clyst]

They seem to have tied the knot anyway .!!

 

[Norman_E]

This must be a first. A press story about a yacht, and the word "luxury" no where to be seen.

As for the boat, they probably used the first photo that came to hand.

 

[badman]

Pirates tied them up whilst they robbed the boat and the couple died of dehydration. Yes or no, if they had tied them selves up they would have been able to untie them selves. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Oliveoyl]

My thoughts as well - tho not at all a specialist in bondage, can't imagine what kind of knots they were doing to become mutually out of action. Maybe married man's wife came on board by stealth, tied 'em up and left?
Just off to register film rights

 

[CLP]

Around 1984/85 I anchored in Ballyhome Bay in Belfast Loch (there was no Bangor Marina in those days) and on rowing ashore met a chap who was just setting off "round the world" in a Leisure 17. The boat was called "Pride of India" I think. A few weeks later I heard he was rescued in the Channel and the coast guard were trying to prevent him from setting sail again. I don't know what happened after that.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Like others, a wheel on a Leisure 17 seems kind of odd.

To answer your specific question, when my father bought ours in 1971 part of the sales blurb boasted that a Leisure17 had been sailed across the Atlantic.

I guess if you can do one ocean, you can do them all.

 

[Rabbie]

In Ryde Harbour last September I met a young German who had a very smart L17 that he had sailed from the Baltic. He was planning to winter in Newport then return sometime this year. Has anyone else met him?.

 

[Slow_boat]

Well, I'm sure that a Leisure 17 is a very fine and seaworthy boat but if one is intent on a long cruise of naughtiness with another would it not be a little small?

 

[l'escargot]

He hasn't wintered south of the Folly.

 

[jimbouy]

two weekends ago there was a L17 anchored on a bit of drying mud in Fareham... opposite my mates boat there. I didn't get the chance to talk to him but wondered if it was the guy you saw in Ryde. He was always smartly dressed and seemed to be working and living on the boat. Apparently he had been there for a few weeks

found a photo