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John Russell
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Initially Posted - 06/19/2010 :  06:23:25  Show Profile
[url="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/17/nyregion/1247468067354/returning-home-after-1-152-days-at-sea.html"]Beyond 1000 days at Sea.[/url]
John Russell
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Sailing Lake Erie
Don't Postpone Joy!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 06/19/2010 :  10:15:44  Show Profile
Puzzling... Very puzzling.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 06/19/2010 :  11:20:48  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
Is this the guy whose "sailing companion" got seasick and ditched the ride someplace in the south pacific?

Edit: Just watched the video - I didn't know she had mornign sickness. I guess that explains her leaving a little better. Three years at sea - wonder where my head would be by the end of it!
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jerlim
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Response Posted - 06/19/2010 :  19:31:17  Show Profile
hmmm...not too sure what to think...the transition has got to be a bit troubled...
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 06/19/2010 :  19:39:09  Show Profile
Whether he was running form or running to . . . . he sure is running into a very different chapter of his life. I can't imagine sailing just to be away and alone that long. Yes, sailing to see/experience new things but it sure sounds like he worked hard at avoided landfall !!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 06/20/2010 :  08:15:40  Show Profile
My friend's son, an experienced offshore sailor, met this guy in NYC when he was trying to finance his adventure--as "a service to mankind to discover how a man would fare on a voyage to Mars" or wherever... (Why not just lock yourself in a box??) I won't publish here the reaction to that encounter. But the vessel is apparently some sort of resin-based variation on ferro-cement, possibly framed with re-bar or something similar.

Listening to both him and the mother of his son, I suspect the transition is going to be "interesting" for both.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 06/20/2010 :  08:35:17  Show Profile
I've been following his adventure on and off since it started. When she got pregnant, my first thought was that they didn't plan very well. It also sounded, at first, like he was attempting something close to legitimate science but, I never saw any comments from him or any organization (NASA comes to mind???)that might give some credence to his "experiment".

I agree, he, his girlfriend and his child will have a substantial adjustment to make. Good luck. Hell, just the adjustment from quiet, solitary living to life in one of the most crowded, noisiest places on earth would drive me nuts. Of course, I don't really have far to go on that count.
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ColinR
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Response Posted - 06/22/2010 :  22:59:57  Show Profile
still no bernard moitessier.

although i agree with what he said about nature and the spirituality of the ocean; something that helped him not to feel alone. something i too discovered fishing the north pacific for albacore tuna last summer.
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John P
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Response Posted - 06/25/2010 :  18:28:38  Show Profile  Visit John P's Homepage
I was following this story for awhile last year, then totally lost track. Some have called this a drift-a-thon on other boards, but you have to admit that there is something to this. If you read a little more into it, you see that the schooner he was on was actually built by himself and siblings, parents, friends, back in the 70's. Honestly, to built a boat like that, then nearly 3 decades later, take it for a 1000+ day trip is just amazing....
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