Sailing in high latitudes

[Wansworth]

Interesting documentary

 

[LittleSister]

It's nice to get away from the crowds, but southern Britain's cold enough for me!

 

[LittleSister]

Of course, proper rufty-tufties would do it single-handed in a small, very basic boat.

If I remember correctly David Lewis went to the Antarctic with neither heater nor comms equipment, as recounted in 'Ice Bird'.

 

[Wansworth]

Of course, proper rufty-tufties would do it single-handed in a small, very basic boat.

If I remember correctly David Lewis went to the Antarctic with neither heater nor comms equipment, as recounted in 'Ice Bird'.

And these days we don’t need to even imagine it……someone will sooner or later put up a YouTube vid

 

[Birdseye]

Reminded me a bit of the british steel challenge boats I sailed on and which were built by devonport . Functional - almost smaller versions of big ships. Floating land rovers?

But why on earth go to the arctic or anarctic? Leave the polar bears and penguins in peace.

 

[LittleSister]

And these days we don’t need to even imagine it……someone will sooner or later put up a YouTube vid

If it's not on an internet video, did it ever happen?

For that sort of sailing you need fortitude, a taste for adventure, fondness for the sound of your own voice, and electronic kit alone worth more than boats such as Shrimpy cost.

And if you're going to high latitudes, a fur bikini!

 

[Wansworth]

This desire to rush to high latitudes a only mean what was once a deserted Caribeean bay now resembles East Head on a whit bank holiday

 

[doug748]

Speaking of which, I am sure many have seen Alluring Arctic but worth a mention:

Some of their skiing stuff is ace.

 

[Frank Holden]

Wansworth 'This desire to rush to high latitudes a only mean what was once a deserted Caribeean bay now resembles East Head on a whit bank holiday'

Fixed it for you

The rush to high latitudes is to avoid Caribbean bays that now resemble East Head on a whit bank holiday.

 

[Wansworth]

Wansworth 'This desire to rush to high latitudes a only mean what was once a deserted Caribeean bay now resembles East Head on a whit bank holiday'

Fixed it for you

The rush to high latitudes is to avoid Caribbean bays that now resemble East Head on a whit bank holiday.

Thanks

 

[Minerva]

Of course, proper rufty-tufties would do it single-handed in a small, very basic boat.

If I remember correctly David Lewis went to the Antarctic with neither heater nor comms equipment, as recounted in 'Ice Bird'.

I read his book recently as it happens. You say “small, very basic boat” my take on it was it was a falling apart, Ill equipped leaky boat without a reliable engine and he was very lucky indeed to make it to the research station alive. Another day longer on passage or another headwind and he would have likely perished from his hypothermia.

 

[Wansworth]

I read his book recently as it happens. You say “small, very basic boat” my take on it was it was a falling apart, Ill equipped leaky boat without a reliable engine and he was very lucky indeed to make it to the research station alive. Another day longer on passage or another headwind and he would have likely perished from his hypothermia.

But why would he do that?

 

[LittleSister]

But why would he do that?

You'll have to read the book to find out!

(p.s. I didn't find it a page-turner, but his accounts in a later book (or was it books?) of investigating the Pacific Islanders' navigation techniques was extremely intersting.)

 

[Wansworth]

You'll have to read the book to find out!

(p.s. I didn't find it a page-turner, but his accounts in a later book (or was it books?) of investigating the Pacific Islanders' navigation techniques was extremely intersting.)

Did he find God?…….save me reading the book

 

[LittleSister]

Did he find God?…….save me reading the book

I can't remember, but there must have been some god or other smiling on him to allow him to get from being in an almost completely incapacitated boat, him too almost completely incapacitated, in frozen seas, thousands of miles from civilisation, and no one knowing where he was, to back home and to complete a long and full life.

 

[Wansworth]

I can't remember, but there must have been some god or other smiling on him to allow him to get from being in an almost completely incapacitated boat, him too almost completely incapacitated, in frozen seas, thousands of miles from civilisation, and no one knowing where he was, to back home and to complete a long and full life.

Indeed

 

[Supertramp]

Have you read The Totorore Voyage? Kiwi fruit farmer builds his own boat then circumnavigates the Antartic twice counting remote seabird colonies. He sadly died at sea in his boat with a sailing colleague years later. He shared with David Lewis a grit and determination that substituted for all sorts of modern equipment.

 

[Wansworth]

Have you read The Totorore Voyage? Kiwi fruit farmer builds his own boat then circumnavigates the Antartic twice counting remote seabird colonies. He sadly died at sea in his boat with a sailing colleague years later. He shared with David Lewis a grit and determination that substituted for all sorts of modern equipment.

Probably there are many voyagers who we ever hear about making their dreams reality

 

[Kukri]

I read his book recently as it happens. You say “small, very basic boat” my take on it was it was a falling apart, Ill equipped leaky boat without a reliable engine and he was very lucky indeed to make it to the research station alive. Another day longer on passage or another headwind and he would have likely perished from his hypothermia.

I was crewing for HW Tilman in 1974. He was a friend of David Lewis and a fellow RCC and OCC member and was one of the not many people who had crossed Drake Passage in a yacht at that time. He did not approve of “Ice Bird” or of single handing and said “That boat is too small”.

 

[Wansworth]

I was crewing for HW Tilman in 1974. He was a friend of David Lewis and a fellow RCC and OCC member and was one of the not many people who had crossed Drake Passage in a yacht at that time. He did not approve of “Ice Bird” or of single handing and said “That boat is too small”.

To some extent it’s like the general comment ”oh it crossed the Atlantic” as if that’s a sure sign that it’s a good boat,well a barril can cross the Atlantic.It’s still the crew who who manage the boat and really their choice of boat that brings a voyage to a successful end..I should imagine Lewis willed his boat to CapeTown