The Untold Voyage by Roger Taylor

[steve yates]

I remember some forum members saying that sandy makinonn’s book, the unlikely voyage of jack le crow was a work of fiction too. And yet last year he then very publicly, with facebook updates almost every day, sailed another mirror from the danube to venice, as a continuation of the original.
That doesn’t mean they are wrong this time, though they certainly were then, but it does allow a bit of room for belief. Sandy was unkown, Roger has written numerous factual accounts of his voyages, which, for me, lends credence to the idea that he is not making it up.
I would be interested to hear what “the previous” referred to was exactly? as it has passed me by.

 

[zoidberg]

I would be interested to hear what “the previous” referred to was exactly?

I'd refer you to the episode in, I think, MingMing II and the Impossible Voyage where he has a fanciful encounter with 'a Russian officer who boards MingMing and has a philosophical discussion'. That is written initially as fact, although later admitted to be hallucination or similar.

 

[justanothersailboat]

Thanks Zoidberg, I'd not read that one yet.

 

[steve yates]

I’ve read it but was a long time ago, and don’t recall that bit. Thank you.

 

[zoidberg]

FWIW, I rate Roger Taylor the Solo Sailor ( not the rock star nor American novelist ) for his unique and quirky contributions to single-handed sailing. And I'm not the only one - the Ocean Cruising Club awarded him their 'Jester Medal'.

Like many others, I immersed myself in and enjoyed his tales of high-latitude adventure. Story-telling is perhaps the oldest of art forms and certainly RT is good at it. Some tales have a longer 'shelf life' than others....

 

[justanothersailboat]

No doubt he's one heck of a sailor. And sometimes he can write really pretty well. That's two hard things to master, most people can count themselves lucky if they manage one...

 

[Mark-1]

I remember some forum members saying that sandy makinonn’s book, the unlikely voyage of jack le crow was a work of fiction too.

That's weird becaise it's not remotely fanciful AFAIR. I'm pretty sure it happened pretty much as he said, and I'm certain he did it.

Clearly all writing gets jazzed up a *little* bit. I met the author of a similar account to Makinonn's and he told me he'd moved an event that happened in the middle to the beginning beciase it worked well. I think that was fair game.

 

[Mark-1]

I'd refer you to the episode in, I think, MingMing II and the Impossible Voyage where he has a fanciful encounter with 'a Russian officer who boards MingMing and has a philosophical discussion'. That is written initially as fact, although later admitted to be hallucination or similar.

Slocumn did similar. I'm certain RT's all earlier books were broadly accurate.

I haven't read this one but if it's been "Tristan Jonesed" up a bit I'll still enjoy it.