Colin Calder wrote: > > Wish I lived a bit closer ... would love to see this exhibition. > > Anyone interested in Shackleton's epic might like to check out: > > http://www.pelagic.co.uk/log97ind/arind.html > > This is a log of an attempt in 1997 to recreate Shackleton's remarkable > passage from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the 'Tom Crean', a > replica of Shackleton's 23 ft boat the 'James Caird'. > > With the support boat 'Pelagic' this is gripping stuff ... Shackleton's > original journey - we are not worthy!. > > Cheers > > Colin Calder > 57º19'N 2º10'W Too bad you can't make the exhibit. I saw a tv show of that attempt in 1997 to duplicate the original voyage but that failed as you point out. BTW, Tom Crean was one of the 6 men on the James Caird on its epic Elephant Is. to South Georgia Is. voyage. Caroline Alexander, who is the guest curator of the exhibit and the author of the latest quite wonderful book on the 1916 voyage (great fotos), wrote that "Crean was perhaps as close as one can come to being indestructible." An article in the New Yorker quoting her on this then goes on to say, "He is reported to have died in 1938, but that sounds unlikely."!!! ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 09:44:48 PDT
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