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Date Posted: 20:50:46 07/01/08 Tue
Author: Bellingham MIke (formerly of Alaska)
Subject: Re: Buehler Emily
In reply to: Bellingham MIke (formerly of Alaska) 's message, "Re: Buehler Emily" on 20:34:54 07/01/08 Tue

The ideal boat is the boat you can afford - the boat you can build, buy, restore, scrounge, or finance. The second man to ever single hand around the world, Harry Pigeon, built a stretched Sea Bird Yawl on a beach near Los Angeles. It was a hard chined boat - by all accounts it had a miserable motion at sea. It had no engine. It did not point very high. Harry was not an experienced sailor when he started. He was not a young man. Yet he sailed that boat around the world two and a half times before finally crashing on a reef when he was in his 70s. Even at the time he built his boat here were better designs (Herreshoff comes to mind) - faster, more comfortable, safer, but he did what he could afford, as did Slocum, and made history. I don't think anyone today would consider either Slocum or Pigeon's boats to be ideal engineless sailboats, or ideal cruising boats, but their accomplishments are hard to argue with, and neither of these guys traded in their boats after their circumnavigations. Which all goes to show the boat design is far less important than the person at the helm...

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  • Re: Buehler Emily -- Alexander, 08:49:53 07/02/08 Wed
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