Back during my days of sailing San Francisco Bay I knew an incredible single handed sailor who sailed his Moore 24 hull number 1 without an engine all along the California Coast. Rumors would surface through the grapevine that he'd appeared in say, Santa Barbara, or Morro Bay and then he'd show up back in Oakland. One of the few times I'd had any converse with this guy ( and I don't think he was much for talking) he mentioned getting lost trying to find the entrance to SF Bay and surprisingly found himself on Drakes Bay. In a rare instance of talking he said something like, "What happened to me happened to Drake." He said that in a way as if he'd had a cosmic connection with Drake.
More recently I was re-reading Giovanni Verrazano's letter to King Francis the first of France and on this most recent re-reading I noticed no mention whatsoever of him describing anything that resembles the Chesapeake. He completely missed it, didn't even know it was there. Here's a link to the letter www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/verrazan.htm .
Drake and Verrazano had no sea buoys to help show them the way or tell them they were in the right spot.
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On a more recent note, here in Newport we're eagerly anticipating the Volvo ocean racing fleet who are scheduled to arrive in early May. "Bigger than the America's Cup ever was!" many are saying.
Verrazano most think did find back in May of 1524 what we now know of as Narragansett Bay. I think he enjoyed it here, treated exceedingly well by the natives, seems so according to his letter.
I've seen one Moore 24 in Newport, a yellow one if I remember correctly, the only one I've seen on the east coast. Have not seen it in a couple of years though.
Another guy I know sailed a Moore 24 from SF Bay to Cabo San Lucas and then diddly bopped around the Sea of Cortez for a winter. Webb Chiles recently sailed a Moore 24 across the Pacific.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
More recently I was re-reading Giovanni Verrazano's letter to King Francis the first of France and on this most recent re-reading I noticed no mention whatsoever of him describing anything that resembles the Chesapeake. He completely missed it, didn't even know it was there. Here's a link to the letter www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/verrazan.htm .
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| The Cape Fear sea buoy. Many think it was somewhere near where this buoy now floats that Giovanni Verrazano in his ship the "Dauphine" first made landfall after sailing westward across the Atlantic back in the year 1524. |
Drake and Verrazano had no sea buoys to help show them the way or tell them they were in the right spot.
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On a more recent note, here in Newport we're eagerly anticipating the Volvo ocean racing fleet who are scheduled to arrive in early May. "Bigger than the America's Cup ever was!" many are saying.
Verrazano most think did find back in May of 1524 what we now know of as Narragansett Bay. I think he enjoyed it here, treated exceedingly well by the natives, seems so according to his letter.
I've seen one Moore 24 in Newport, a yellow one if I remember correctly, the only one I've seen on the east coast. Have not seen it in a couple of years though.
Another guy I know sailed a Moore 24 from SF Bay to Cabo San Lucas and then diddly bopped around the Sea of Cortez for a winter. Webb Chiles recently sailed a Moore 24 across the Pacific.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
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