Who needs an expensive boat to cross an ocean ?

[Rappey]

Interesting read..


Across the Atlantic in a £1500 ferrocement schooner - Yachting World

Then the guy sails a brand new dehler 35 from north Wales to the Hamble which he didn't seem to enjoy
The Delivery Nobody Wanted | Ocean Sailor Magazine

 

[europe172]

Great books , from a great seafarer

 

[laika]

I remember a few years ago in one of the yachting rags about a bloke who sailed a £1500 ferro cement boat from essex to the caribbean on a whim. The spin on the story was that he was a nutter who had no idea what he was doing, got there by pure fluke and boat had had a hole in it he didn't know about which only didn't spring a leak because it was plugged with essex mud. Is this chap (yachtmaster, delivery skipper, author and mate of high-ups in the RYA) the same bloke and is it a reminder not to believe everything you read in the yaching press?

 

[europe172]

The book is a true account of the journey, don’t believe the spin

 

[TernVI]

I remember a few years ago in one of the yachting rags about a bloke who sailed a £1500 ferro cement boat from essex to the caribbean on a whim. The spin on the story was that he was a nutter who had no idea what he was doing, got there by pure fluke and boat had had a hole in it he didn't know about which only didn't spring a leak because it was plugged with essex mud. Is this chap (yachtmaster, delivery skipper, author and mate of high-ups in the RYA) the same bloke and is it a reminder not to believe everything you read in the yaching press?

People selling old ferro boats don't produce much advertising revenue for the comics.

 

[penfold]

A deep-sea version of Captain Calamity.

 

[Rappey]

Is this chap (yachtmaster, delivery skipper, author and mate of high-ups in the RYA) the same bloke

I would have thought so as how many £1500 ferro boats from brighton marina sail to the caribbean and back ?
Chipping norton yacht club " this was an admirable and inspiring story of good planning, courage and competence. Max’d been a trawler skipper, knew his way round boats and the sea, and nothing seemed to have fazed him. "
This was the only article of many that mentioned the hole !

Ignore the marina part, not sure why i typed that