I'm currently re-reading Chichester's Alone across the Atlantic and watching videos of Roger Taylor's most recent jaunt and it's quite a contrast.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpbqAWUzco[/youtube]
Admittedly GMIII is going more than twice as fast as Mingming but still Chichester seems to be making much heavier weather of it while even a broken rib is apparently all in a day's work to Taylor.
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Cards on Table: I find Chichester and Alec Rose's books really dull. It's all "And then I ate porridge and put the other foresail up, and a whisky". Page after page of sail changes and food. Taylor is far more interesting to my mind.Silkie wrote:I'm currently re-reading Chichester's Alone across the Atlantic and watching videos of Roger Taylor's most recent jaunt and it's quite a contrast.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpbqAWUzco[/youtube]
Admittedly GMIII is going more than twice as fast as Mingming but still Chichester seems to be making much heavier weather of it while even a broken rib is apparently all in a day's work to Taylor.
I met him on Wednesday.
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He did a talk and a bit of a slide show for a club I'm in.Silkie wrote:Do tell.Mark wrote:I met him on Wednesday.
He signed both my books.
Amazing life.
After he told of the Shipwreck, and hand steering accross the Tasman Sea he was asked the question: "What would it take to make you give up sailing?". Made I larf.