Who needs an expensive boat to cross an ocean ?

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?
 
laika said:
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?
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People selling old ferro boats don't produce much advertising revenue for the comics.
 
laika said:
Is this chap (yachtmaster, delivery skipper, author and mate of high-ups in the RYA) the same bloke
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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
 
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