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Not one person in the whole film was wearing a PDF.
It also shows how foresail furlers have changed sailing.
Some very interesting sail plans too.

gary

SandS said..

.be&fbclid=IwAR0qPGlhh1Lnnj_72x1L88O23bB3-1Ukg5sOD0nSRNqJ86cFc0D745qoowEThanks for putting that on

Thanks for putting that on.

Thanks for the link. It was great to see. Some thoughts

The blond lanky bloke featuring often mucking around in a bath and helping fix sails below deck is Peter Blake. I think he was watch captain on this race.

At the start of the race the narrator says "manouvring around the small boats" just as we see a shot of the 128ft Vendredi 13 - a competitor from the 1972 singlehanded OSTAR.

Some of the smaller boats have such low freeboard compared to similar length boats today.

cheers

Phil

tarquin1 said..
Awesome.
They do it a little faster these days but in a little less comfort. What will we see in 40 years time!
Imagine sending off a race around the world with no gps or heaven forbid AIS. We really have become a bunch soft cocks.

The one in five of us who get prostrate cancer and have a prostratomy end up with soft cocks, but we are still able to orgasm and do most things that we did before.