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tinob
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Initially Posted - 12/29/2006 : 11:04:47

Awhile back we were into discussing sailors of repute at which point I mentioned having read about an airline pilot who sailed the tinyest boat ever across the pond ,east to west, blab blab blab. That boat was "April Fool" and the time was 1968, and while the boat was six feet long, it turns out that the pilot was also six feet long.
Brooke mentioned having met Hugo Vihlen some time ago who fit the description of the pilot that I had read about fourty years ago. Well, long story short, the adventure of the west east crossing in "Fathers Day" by Hugo Vihlen, circa 1993 is a book detailing the the adventure of the very same seaman who was now making the crossing in a boat he had to cut two inches off in order to maintain his record of having sailed the Atlantic in the smallest boat ever. "The Stormy Voyage of Fathers Day" is the book detailing his adventure.
Now I'm not quite six feet tall and in the time that it took me to type this I've been to the fridge twice and my butt is in spasms having been sitting so long without any movement. Try one hundred and five days in a cabin in which the only way that you could straighten your legs was when you stood up. You gotta read this one.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT, # 3936, Patchogue, N.Y.

Val Bisagni]

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redviking
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Response Posted - 12/30/2006 : 12:10:56

Thanks so much for the review! I survive wintah - barely - by reading!

My x-mas gifts in that department has me a bit overwhelmed at the moment!

"Seagulls in my soup" by Tristan Jones - he wrote many cruising oriented stories in a series of sorts. This is the second in the series.

"66 Days Adrift" by William Butler - makes me wonder if he is related to our beloved Frank! I've skimmed this one and it looks like a real page-turner!!! The wife gets pissy, they have to catch turtles and fish, etc to survive.

"North to the Night" by Alvah Simon - guy gets stuck up in the frozen North for the winter... Shovels himself out a lot from what I can tell..

"Your Right to Anchor" by Harry Phillips - Enough said - love it! This book, out of print for some time, details our constitutional right to anchor. It will be onboard forever as a last resort when confronted by over zealous - just got the keys to the city Zodiac, "You can't anchor here!" infront of zillion dolllar homes town po po..

And finally, "A Voyage for Madmen" by Peter Nichols - This is another book on the 1968 round the world race wherein only one sailor finished. I have read with fascination "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst" and this details same race with a lot of different perspectives...

Gotta get out of New England..

sten