Serious cruising in open boat.

[Kelpie]

1986 Laurent Bourgnon (Swiss) and Fred Giraldi.

Didn't they get trench foot because of the constant immersion?

 

[snooks]

1986 Laurent Bourgnon (Swiss) and Fred Giraldi.

Just remembered about Alain Bombard. He crossed the Atlantic in an inflatable Bombard dinghy, with no food or supplies. He did have a meal on a cruise ship part way across, which he later regretted IIRC

 

[ytd]

There was a TV doco recently about the re-enactment of Shackleton's open boat voyage from Antartica to the Falklands. Now that did not look like fun.

 

[DownWest]

There was a TV doco recently about the re-enactment of Shackleton's open boat voyage from Antartica to the Falklands. Now that did not look like fun.

Think it was to South Georgia.

IIRR, the pilot of the Concorde that crashed, had windsurfed across the Atlantic.

 

[rotrax]

Think it was to South Georgia.

IIRR, the pilot of the Concorde that crashed, had windsurfed across the Atlantic.

Many years ago when returning from a Grass Track and Speedway gig in the old East Germany I was tasked with keeping the driver awake on the first leg towards Hamburg. We got slackjawing about his exploits.

He was well travelled and had been a Superyacht Skipper and a First Officer on commercial ships, mostly tankers through Suez.

He told me he was called by the Watchkeeper on one trip. He got the bins out and spotted a windsurfer about 40 NM off the Morroccan coast.

After doing a bit of research he found it was a French guy trying to break a record Marseille to Tangier.

Same guy perhaps?

 

[Sybarite]

Just remembered about Alain Bombard. He crossed the Atlantic in an inflatable Bombard dinghy, with no food or supplies. He did have a meal on a cruise ship part way across, which he later regretted IIRC

I don't think it was a Bombard dinghy.

 

[Ravi]

+1 just finished reading it. The H&S types may wish to avoid!

+1 again. Great read.