
01-05-2009
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 5,490
Rep Power: 7
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Moitessier for being incredibly skilled and completely individualistic, the Smeatons and the Hiscocks, for cruising when cruising was 99% unassisted and very basic, and Yves Parlier (the guy who cooked his own carbon mast repair by beaching an Open 60 on a sub-antarctic island!) have to be in there.
Alan Villiers, Irving Johnson and Eric Newby, for their first-hand accounts of the last, grueling days of commercial sail have to also rank.
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