Kudos guys!
Kudos guys!
Mike
Totoro (Sea Sprite 23 #626)
SUPERB!
Haven't been able to sit here for the time it would take to witness the whole voyage. Don't know if it is Sean or Brian who kept the journal - it has an appealing, friendly, sane and happy quality (amongst other adjectives) that I also hope can find its well deserved way into book form.
Don't know how you'd market this adventure, but there must be a huge pre-mid-life-crisis reading pubic that would find it a real pleasure and a relief from all the hard stuff. Maybe Borders would do a books on tape - it would make a great contrast to Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brion) - that poor saps in commuter traffic could listen to on their way to work.
Hope the story remains available on site here and doesn't fall down into the bottom of the bag. Never know, it might have been a whole different adventure in a sailboat other than a 40 year old Commander! (about the same age as the crew!)
Hats off to 'the lads'....great reading too.Inspiring and gives a sence of confidence in our lil boats...OK OK.. lil yaghts ! PS Ebb..I think the boat is older than they are.
Ahoy, all!
Just wanted to share the new updates (long in coming, much to my chagrin) at larkoffaith.com go to the Ships Log. The rest of the journey will be forthcoming over the next week or two and updates will be available every day or two. I and my crew appreciated your support much more than you'll ever know. In many ways it kept us going - it gave us another reason to make the voyage happen.
Also, I wanted to answer a couple of queries:
Yes, the boat is older than all of us except Brian, who's got five years on her.
Sean writes the log with help from the crew for getting the exact details exactly detailed.
Yes, we will be putting it out as a book with about twice as much material as the log contains...you know, all the juicy details we left out due to time and taste.
Lastly, all of you Pearson owners are sailing the finest boats ever built in their class! Fair winds, Amigos!
Sean
Last edited by Faith; 09-27-2005 at 02:07 PM.
Good stuff, Sean. Keep 'em coming.
I like Juicy bits too. We're all adults here, mostly.
Must have been an incredible amount of planning and logistics involved in the adventure.
I vote to nominate Sean as Asst. Vice Commodore of the entire West Coast Fleet (Commander Division), with all the rights and privileges attendant thereto
Motion passed without opposition. Congratulations
The log is now complete detailing the voyage. Over 7500 miles
http://www.geocities.com/sjfaul/log.html
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