Subscribe to RSS FeedSo it looks like the Dutch government pulled the plug on the teenager's attempt to sail solo around the world (http://www.wcjb.co.uk/dutch-girl-sailing-dream-torpedoed-by-authorities-18730). I don’t have an opinion one way or the other, but this news item gives me traction to tell you of a good read.
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl. If you haven't read it, pick up a copy and if you have read it, have another go. It's a great story about several fellows that built a raft of balsa logs and sailed 4,000 plus miles across the Pacific. The successful voyage supported the author's thesis that Peruvians were the settlers of various islands in the far Pacific. What a story though, alone on nine balsa logs with the sea's creatures, the weather and rippling currents. Storms, a reef, injuries and the ever-lurking panic of being swept into the sea make it a read that'll put some grit back into your seagoing affairs.
And yes, this post has a little bit of maritime law flavor; namely, that Thor and his friends didn't seem to need the counsel of any maritime attorneys to fight off a meddling bureaucracy.
Underway and making way.
--- JKF
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