Fair winds Syd, you were one of a kind in oh so many ways.
Funny story from when I worked for him. We organised a birthday party for him in the office and the then manager of the Gazebo hotel booked a fatagram stripper without telling anyone. Syd was not impressed and insisted all female staff...
This is the one I stumbled on and I'm 18 pages in, it's a classic.
Started off oh so nicely.
https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/i-placed-a-contract-on-rebecca.138925/
Yes, his crew were very inexperienced. There was a defined window for leaving the Philippines to hook up with the current and wind pattern for the trip. This coincided with the beginning of the Typhoon season so you had to time your departure carefully. Clyde got impatient and left early and...
That's crazy, I know Clyde and had no idea about any of this. I met him in Manila when he had the Formosa and when he abandoned sailing it home I helped him load it on the ship to take it home. Later when my girlfriend and I arrived in LA on the boat we were sailing on we moved into his place...