2011年1月18日星期二

framed photos of replica IWC 5022-19 watch big sailboat

This was at the Oakland Yacht Club, six weeks ago, and I was there partly to see what Id gotten myself into, and partly to see a presentation by John Guzzwell, a sailor of legendary repute.In 1957, Guzzwell saved the day (to say the least) replica IWC 3714-15 watch when a 46-foot boat called the Tzu Hang pitchpoled (i.e. went ass-over-teakettle) and was dismasted in the Southern Ocean, 1000 miles from Cape Horn. (The story is chronicled in the classic, Once is Enough, by Miles Smeeton.) Two years later, when he was 29, Guzzwell completed a singlehanded circumnavigation on Trekka, a 21-foot wooden yawl that hed built.

It was then the smallest boat ever to have gone around the world. Since then, hes designed custom boats, cruised all over the world with his family, raced from L.A. to Osaka, and twice raced singlehanded to Hawaii in the TransPac, once when he was 71 years old. The 2nd floor of the Oakland Yacht Club was lined with framed photos of replica IWC 5022-19 watch big sailboats, and flags lots of flags. There was a large wooden yacht wheel, as obligatory as a horseshoe over the door of a barn. These things Id expected. Just past the door, I found a poster-sized document that I didnt expect, and couldnt stop examining. It was the Official West Coast Circumnavigator List, courtesy of Latitude 38, the local SF-Bay-area sailing magazine.

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