--- Yes, but there was a different photo of something I saw, but now I've lost it.
I was talking to someone last night who knows more about Gougeon during this EC. Turns out it is even more amazing that this "old codger" finished the EC. A weird incident occurred and he fell out of the boat as the boat shifted at anchor. To get back aboard he gripped his chair and it popped out and floated away. He got back aboard, upped anchor in the night and searched for his chair, but lost it in the current. This was a big blow because the well designed chair is very important to his sailing-endurance ergonomic -- in this new version of the canoe, the chair also reverses and he can sleep with his head out of the wind under that hard dodger (you have seen the cool things he has used that dodger for -- storage pockets and compass, etc. up under its roof -- and now it is even cooler). He ended up using the dodger as a kind of seat back rest for the remainder of the event. What a sailor! -- Wade
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