[Slayer]

As I get along in years, I find this and other stories of older sailors inspirational.

Rich Wilson, the best ambassador for the Vendée Globe - Vendée Globe 2016

 

[TQA]

Don't forget Sir Robin Knox Jonhston has just completed the Route du Rhum the single handed race from France to Guadeloupe and finished 3rd or 4th in his class.

He was sailing an Open 60.

Age 75.

 

[Slayer]

Don't forget Sir Robin Knox Jonhston has just completed the Route du Rhum the single handed race from France to Guadeloupe and finished 3rd or 4th in his class.

He was sailing an Open 60.

Age 75.

He finished 3rd. Another inspiration!

 

[RTB]

You have to love "the General" Ken Roper. 84 and still doing the SHTP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9qiiCATB2A

I think sixty-something is pretty young actually. A friend just returned from Panama to Texas. He mostly single-hands his Tartan 41, and just turned the big 7-0.

Ralph