Lucky Ozzie

[Keith Tindell]

This was another rescue at sea, this guys homemade boat capsized, he had been attempting to row single hand across the Pacific, been doing this since last summer, some ambition, the Pacific as we all know is a BIG ocean.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67027878

[James Curry]

Lucky guy, Some bottle there to attempt that row. Bit of excitment for the punters on the cruise as well.

[j.sabourn]

#1 self gratification I understand Keith but a lot of these wannabes put little thought in to those who by law have to drop their own normal business and go and attempt to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. I wonder how many of them foresee themselves requiring assistance in their attempts at trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records and take out insurance on themselves or are that self centred think they are safe without. Personally there are enough cowboys at sea without adding more. Cheers JS .

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Read a book, a few years ago now about a bloke who rowed an Indian canoe from the States to Sydney, it was quite a famous book, and a good read I may remember the title in a few years.
Des

[j.sabourn]

A good title would have been Des “ From Here to Eternity” but someone else collared that one. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Last year we had to change course to look for a yacht that had gone missing in the Sydney to Hobart race.
No one on board, but found drifting helplessly no sall.

[James Curry]

I can understand why people do what a lot of us would perhaps call fool hardy. But it is what I would call having a spirit of adventure and long may it continue to be so.

Now was it fool hardy or just plain bloody stupid for a few billionaires to dive on the Titanic a while back.

[Rob Cumbes]

The world is full of hopeful nutters. I stayed with a bloke on Raratonga many moons ago. He had build a yacht in his garden, when living in Oz, with the idea of emigrating to the USA. His knowledge of navigation was a bit hazy but he set sail with the premise that North America was a big target, so if he kept heading North East, eventually he would find it. He ran aground on Bora Bora. This killed his desire to become a Yank, found his way to the Cook Islands where he met and married a local whahine. His address was "The Little Polonesian", On The Beach, Raratonga, C.I. What a lucky, lucky man.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Don't know about that Rob, if she had got short on food might have eaten him, some big girls there.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Why try to row across, do they not know that now you can fly!!!!!