Voyage For Madmen

[dpex]

Have many of you read this amazing book?

Hells teeth. I thought I'd put up with some 'stuff' at sea, but nothing like this.

May I say I relate best with Moitessier. 'It's just the sailing which counts.'

Loved the poem.....

"When you're lost in the wild,
As scared as a child,
And death looks you bang in the eye,
And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle,
To **** the revolver and die.
But the code of man says: "fight all you can."
And self dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it's so easy to blow....
It's the hell served on breakfast that's hard."

There are three more stanza along the same line.

One of my little pleasures resides in the creation of piano music. One small piece, in particular has eluded vocals. But as I read this poem I cvould here the music. They fit, perfectly. And so my intention is to transcribe the music and words to Ukelale, whereupon, when the **** really hits the fan I shall simply take up my instrument and strum and sing, till the sorest stuff passes....or I pass. :-))

[QuickMick]

its a good one for sure. you might also wanna check out slocums perennial classic about solo-ing around the world and 'rescue in the pacific'.... or you could just check this out...

http://www.sailnet.com/forums/genera...d-reading.html

[LandLocked66c]

Finished it a week or so ago. Great book! Have you read his others? Sea Change was awesome too. There is one more that he has written that's on my list next...

[treilley]

I am a slow reader. I read this one in a day!

[dpex]

Originally Posted by treilley

I am a slow reader. I read this one in a day!

When savouring the finest of wines I prefer to sip...very slowly, to extract the maximum of pleasure. Lee Child I can read in a day. Peter Nichols? Sip, sip, sip. :--))

[sailortjk1]

Love it Great Read.
If you liked Voyage you might also try, The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. It is also very interesting and gives you a different perspective into the life of DC.

[dpex]

Recently, I completed a spreadsheet list of stuff I would need/require/want for a non-stop, maybe 365 day tour of the globe. Granted, added into my figures were my daily wine and fags...There's some things a man simply cannot reject....:--))

None the less I figured the consumables cost, less wine and fags, was to the order of NZ$7,500. I imagine the figure would be much the same in any currency and at any time in history; given local costs etc.

Moreover, the total deadweight, if I'd poured all this aboard Suhaili, for example, would have been 1600 kilograms!

The gross volume of the stores was, as I calculated, nearly 19 cubic metres!

I've been looking around my boat to see whee the hell I could store 19 cubic metres of stuff!

The more I looked the more I saw great piles of lightweight stuff, like dunny rolls, and dried goods, stacked around me, like pillars of malevolance, smiling as they waited for the first big sea.

I'm lucky in as much as I now have a functioning watermaker, so I don't have to store water. Moitessier and KJ did. Where?

I guess one could certainly reduce the load by agreeing to live for a year on pasta cooked in seawater, but I have to say I'd find that a bit hard/daft even.

So here's a bit of a challenge. Put a list together of 'all' you would need for say, 260 days at sea, and see what you come up with. What weight and were would you stoe it, given you have to accept a right bashing, several times, along the way. Ergo, where stores, not totally stored, will fly like astronauts around a weightless cabin.

The project sure as hell amazed me.

BTW: I made no allowance for shooting a whale and thus expanding my red-meat supplies. And, of course, shooting sundry birds would very likely bring upuon one depths of self created misery as to be unsustainable.

In other words, my neo-voyage takes all with it.

So there's the challenge. In your currency, how much and and what weight would you supply your boat, for just you, for a year?

I have to further confess that mine included 10Kg of choc bars. :--))