Atlantic Crossing on a 23' Star Boat

[Glenn McCarthy]

It's True!

 

[sunseeker]

It’s also stupid.

 

[mad]

Darwin to the courtesy phone...... urgent booking required. 

 

[shaggy]

Meh, he seems prepared enough.  Boat is obviously not a star anymore, but it is star shaped more or less.  as long as he keeps it keel side down he should be ok.  My german is a little rusty, did he add more ballast?     

 

[shaggy]

Well, if you can sleep in a coffin then I guess you are good to go.   :huh:

 

[Rainier]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.  Why?

I could probably convince somebody to kick me square in the nuts but I'm in no hurry to do so....

 

[Liquid]

I did the Newport to Bermuda race in 1984 when I was 18 - shitty conditions: 20- 30+ on the nose for a few days after the stream - then not so much wind. return delivery was posh on a single tack with only 4 on board. anyways...

Maybe I'm just old or not as old as the off watch guy below but once dockside I had a long toothed, gray haired veteran tell me 4 things (Dark and Stormies where involved -  clearly):

1: never sail on an ocean, on a boat shorter in length than your years of age

2: If you own the boat never go before the mast.

3: Give buckets to the youngest on board and tell them if you don't bail fast, the boat will sink.

4: The classic "Never step down into a life raft'.

Wise words, me thinks...

 

[SloopJonB]

Why bother? Webb Chiles did it better a long time ago - and recently for that matter.

 

[RKoch]

Seemed pretty well prepared, and tradewind crossing safe enough. 

 

[tane]

I did the Newport to Bermuda race in 1984 when I was 18 - shitty conditions: 20- 30+ on the nose for a few days after the stream - then not so much wind. return delivery was posh on a single tack with only 4 on board. anyways...

Maybe I'm just old or not as old as the off watch guy below but once dockside I had a long toothed, gray haired veteran tell me 4 things (Dark and Stormies where involved -  clearly):

1: never sail on an ocean, on a boat shorter in length than your years of age

2: If you own the boat never go before the mast.

3: Give buckets to the youngest on board and tell them if you don't bail fast, the boat will sink.

4: The classic "Never step down into a life raft'.

Wise words, me thinks...

wow Liquid, this is starting to get expensive for me...

 

[sail69]

Talk about getting a monkey butt...

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Etchells, Stars, and Solings AFAIK can and have been modded into offshore boats. Now crossing in a *standard class legal Star*, THAT would be nuts! This is just cramped.

 

[Slected37]

Well.. not sailing but... two Finnish guys crossed atlantic with 4,3 meter sportsboat (Marino Mustang) in seventies..

 

[Great Red Shark]

Yes,  and you could cross Death Valley on a Pogo Stick,  but Fuckin' WHY ????

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Dr. Hannes Lindemann crossed the Atlantic on a folding kayak (a now well-known Klepper kayak)...way back in the 1950s.  By paddle and sail.  Totally unassisted.  (He just died two years go.) 

Now THAT is epic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Lindemann

 

[$&@]

Ant. Steward.

That is all. 

 

[RKoch]

I heard some guys went from Ecuador to Fiji in a balsa raft.  Who gives a shit? 

A wee squall and Star guy would be chum.  Luck is for the stupid. 

The Star had a cut-down rig; enclosed, albeit cramped, cabin;  and a small cockpit. Looked reasonably seaworthy for trade wind crossing.

 

[h20man]

Open 18 Hobie cat? (non foiling..... )

• Across the Atlantic on an Open Hobie 18 Catamaran
  

 

[RKoch]

I think someone already crossed the Atlantic in a beach cat.