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skuthorp
06-16-2010, 02:49 AM
Don't know if you folks have been following their blog but they have made it, using the same navigation techniques as Bligh.
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/06/15/152371_tasmania-news.html
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Captain-William-Bligh-did-it---and-so-did-they!/70821

http://www.sail-world.com/photos_2010/std_Bounty%20arriving%20in%20Kupang1.jpgBounty arriving in Kupang - .. .
Hwyl
06-16-2010, 06:01 AM
A silly re enactment of a silly voyage.
PeterSibley
06-16-2010, 06:21 AM
Great stuff Jeff , definitely masochist's territory ! I saw the boat at Hobart , very nicely done .Much admiration for their navigation ! it certainly makes an open boat voyage to Fiji feasible doesn't it ?
skuthorp
06-16-2010, 07:36 AM
A silly re enactment of a silly voyage.
There are few places for the adventurous to explore without expensive technology these days, few for those inclined to challenge themselves. The sea is still there, untamable, dangerous, a risk.
BETTY-B
06-16-2010, 12:35 PM
Cook would be proud of his old navigator. And Maury would tell them all they're going the wrong way and could easily have shaved many days off if only they would have done so and so. But good effort for doing it the same time of year!
The Gentleman Sawyer
06-16-2010, 02:08 PM
A silly re enactment of a silly voyage.

What, exactly, made Bligh's voyage "silly?"

Ken
Bobcat
06-16-2010, 02:39 PM
What, exactly, made Bligh's voyage "silly?"

Ken

Not as if Capt Bligh really had a choice about taking to an overloaded open boat in mid ocean, after all.
Hwyl
06-16-2010, 02:58 PM
But there were places he could have stopped.
John B
06-16-2010, 03:05 PM
He could have dropped in for dinner,they would have loved to have him.
rufustr
06-16-2010, 03:10 PM
But there were places he could have stopped.

Perhaps you should reread the story.
Jay Greer
06-16-2010, 05:40 PM
Uffa Fox's Second Book if you can find a copy, devotes a chapter to Bligh's epic voyage as well as the design and lines of The Bounty's Launch. Considering that Bligh travled over 3,600miles with fourteen men aboard the twenty three foot open launch arriving in Timor with all but one who was killed in a skirmish with natives when landing on an island for water and supplies, the replica voyage of four men in a boat that is much longer than the Bounty's launch does not carry as much credulity as did Bligh's astounding example of discipline and seamanship.
Jay
Bobcat
06-16-2010, 05:57 PM
He could have dropped in for dinner,they would have loved to have him.


Now that's funny :D