Attached following are three of several interviews boattalk did with George MacKay, builder of Raw Faith. The MP3 files are linked below. If you would like to listen in your browser visit the other copy of this post at the WERU archives – http://archives.weru.org/boattalk/boattalk-archives-raw-faith Raw Faith Under Construction Raw Faith – December 2004 Raw Faith […]
Continue →On December 7 while on the way to Bermuda from Boston, George MacKay and one crew member abandoned Raw Faith 100 miles south of Nantucket. They were flown to Cape Cod. There is an article in the Dec 8 edition of www.bernews.com. The boattalk guys will definitely be talking about this on the next show, […]
Continue →Even Thor the skull cleaver* would have looked twice at conditions that morning. I thought it looked a little nuts driving down to Rockland, bay covered with whitecaps, blowing 25 knots, clear, cold, early November. It was calming down though and Thor (the expeditioneer) said he and the sail guy hadn’t broken anything in […]
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