I am currently reading Mom's copy of Gipsy Moth Circles the World, and am amazed at what poor Sir Francis had to endure before even leaving port! A badly designed boat with almost none of his specs (far larger and leakier than he wanted), 50% over budget even before launch, a bum leg, and his beloved wife laid out by a curtain rod! I think I would have crumbled. This is perhaps why my dream is not so much to circumnavigate the globe as to make it as far as Maine some day. Or Key West. Whatever. I am easy to please.
This is the Gipsy Moth IV, possibly the world's luckiest boat, coming in to Devon. (Lucky in that he didn't dynamite her in the Solent.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/image_galleries/gipsy_moth_returns_gallery.shtml
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