[PUP] PPM/Idlewild

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

>>The other thing that Hannu Venermo got wrong was that Idlewild was 
>>comfortable.
>
>Not at all, Georg.

Gosh, Hannu, you're so caught up in the theory of  it all that you're 
prepared to ignore the reality of the discomfort level experienced by 
the crew of Idlewild.

Ben Gray, the owner of Idlewild, reported from Australia that the 
boat regularly rolled 20 to 40 degrees, sometime hitting 60 degrees 
and more.

"It took us 29 days to make it from South Africa to Australia," Gray 
told the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal. "Because of the rolling, we were 
only able to cook on 18 of those days."

Food was eaten cold, often right out of the can. Is that a 
comfortable way to make long passages at sea?

When I interviewed Gray aboard Idlewild at the conclusion of his 
record-setting circumnavigation, he told me the boat rolled 
"something awful" before paravanes were fitted in Australia.

Call Idlewild anything you want but don't call her a comfortable boat at sea.

--Georgs
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