Oddly enough an Optimist dinghy is only 2/3 the length of that boat so he'd have to have been even more of an optimist to think he could do it in an Optimist.
Within hours of his heartbreaking video going up, his JustGiving page had also been taken down. He had been raising money for cancer charities in memory of his father, mother and friend Tom McNally, who helped him design and build the boat before his death.
I don’t disagree that he was doing it for a good cause. I do disagree with the suggestion that the boat might have made it across the Atlantic. He risked becoming either a casualty or a rescue victim himself.
Yes Pez he’s just another in a line of people who’ve all competed for the record for the smallest boast to cross the Atlantic. As there really is a minimum size to accommodate a person they are now down to trying to shave off a centimetre or two.
Am I the only one who found this story hilarious?
Heh.
Oddly enough an Optimist dinghy is only 2/3 the length of that boat so he'd have to have been even more of an optimist to think he could do it in an Optimist.
I feel sorry for him.
/r/leopardsatemyface
Man who designed 3 foot square boat is surprised by ocean waves larger than 3 feet high....
Not really very funny at all, Warren.
He wasn't surprised by the waves. Just turned out he had a leak somewhere and to be honest almost every boat leaks to some extent.
Poor guy. He seemed a fairly experienced sailor as well.
I don’t disagree that he was doing it for a good cause. I do disagree with the suggestion that the boat might have made it across the Atlantic. He risked becoming either a casualty or a rescue victim himself.
Plenty of similar sized boats have made it and I suspect he would have had a support vessel shadowing him but not helping.
In the line of great British eccentrics.
Reminded me of
https://youtu.be/lku7tsvrxSw
Plenty of similar size boats to this? There must be more nautical nutters out there than I thought...
Yes Pez he’s just another in a line of people who’ve all competed for the record for the smallest boast to cross the Atlantic. As there really is a minimum size to accommodate a person they are now down to trying to shave off a centimetre or two.
fair fvcks to him, hope he tries again
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