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ClamBeach
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Initially Posted - 12/28/2005 :  23:04:10  Show Profile
I suggest perusing the log of the Berrimilla. This is the chronicle of two late-50's sailors who decide it might be fun to have a 'bit of a sail' in their rather modest vessel, the Berrimilla.

Starting with the Sydney-Hobart regatta, they continue across the Pacific, around Cape Horn to England and race in the Fastnet. Then turn-about and sail via the Cape of Good Hope arriving back to Sydney in time for the next S-H. (Berri is smack in the middle of that regatta as I type this.)

IMHO: Great reading. A real inspiration to all us 50-something 'old farts'... and younger sailors too. The site also has good photo pages (especially rounding the Horn), gear lists, preparation notes etc. Enjoy.

http://www.berrimilla.com/

Go the Berrimilla!
WOTAM - '77 Catalina 25 SK/SR Sail Number 158
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Response Posted - 12/29/2005 :  00:13:16  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Did they get their cape horn earing?
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 12/29/2005 :  22:01:23  Show Profile
Don't remember any earrings... but the did get a Bluewater Sailors Award from the Royal Yacht Assn. The gallery has a cool photo of them sailing back into Sydney flying the Hobart and Fastnet battle flags.
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tinob
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Response Posted - 12/31/2005 :  14:01:45  Show Profile
For some light very funny reading one might consider Seven Hundred Sundays. Its a one day read and the closest one might come to water is if you wet yer pants reading it...Billy Crystal did it.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT # 3936
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tinob
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Response Posted - 12/31/2005 :  14:07:29  Show Profile
Or perhaps Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, riveting !

Val
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reuben
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Response Posted - 01/01/2006 :  09:18:29  Show Profile
I got Bonnie Dahl's "Superior Way" for Christmas -- a comprehensive cruising guide to Lake Superior. It's one of those compendia of sketches, charts & experiential know-how you can just disappear into on these dark January days.
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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 01/04/2006 :  19:43:26  Show Profile
You should really read: 1421 The Year China Discovered America, by Gavin Menzies.

He makes the case with research and data both historical and contemporary...I'm convinced.

If only J. Bruce Ismay had incorporated sealed bulkheads on the Titanic like the Chinese had 500 years previously, wot?

Jim Williams
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