Summer Cruise???????

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Submitted by dictate on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 23:36

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"Summer Cruise" has connotations of a pleasurable activity, but I would never describe Frank Dye's cruise as such!
Whilst not a "Mirror" topic, this film has to be essential viewing for any small boat sailor.
Search on youtube as "A Rough Passage: The Summer Cruise of Frank Dye and Bill Brockbank"

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62816inBerlin

Fri, 06/20/2014 - 12:07

The surprising thing is that the super-8 camera and the film survived the ordeal.
It's a pity that the digitizing seems to have been effected by videoing off a projector screen (I believe you can hear the projector at times). Of course professional services take a lot of money, but the prices are coming down now.
Thanks for the tip.
To help those who don't want to search, the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ9Qh9hv8eQ
Cheers,
Gernot H.

David Cooper

Fri, 06/20/2014 - 19:21

Thanks for bringing this to my/our attention - Looking forward to watching it (though it'll have to wait for a time when I can afford to download the data - no landline, so tight monthly data limit).

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dictate

Sun, 06/22/2014 - 12:10

M'aidez Gernot!
An amazing coincidence, but will not accept my URL.
It is correct, for I have treble checked.
Can you sort out for the benefit of those interested?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/21/sailing-into-hell-two-men-dingy-da...
Forget my request Gernot, I have just spotted that the Guardian's URL has spelt "dinghy" without the "h" and I have corrected my post to read as their's!

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PuffinInTegel

Sun, 06/22/2014 - 21:31

Ok, I do not advocate that this should be done frequently, but after reading the article, I venture to say that some keel boats would have gone down with man and mouse but a dinghy stays afloat in most cases. As long as you can stay with the boat, you have a chance of survival.

If you enjoy reading such accounts, Robert Manry's book on his transatlantic rossing in "Tinkerbelle" is now available for on-line reading:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/clevelandstatedr/docDetail.action?docID=10424...
Gernot H.