Antoine ALLAIN wrote:
Hi every body
I just learned that Nick Barham passed last december. See here.
He was the second owner of WaterBear and entered with her in Cstar 1988, finishing last in 47days. The comeback transat, double handed, seems to have been quite an adventure, too.
Antoine
WaterBear
Thank you for this news Antoine, sad though it is. I sold Water Bear to Nick and helped him with the OSTAR preparations, having been approached by the organisers to comment on Nick's jury rig preparations. Although I thought some of his ideas a bit strange - e.g. taking 2 large anchors on an ultra-light displacement boat to make a non-stop deep ocean voyage - his much later summary, after the loss of Tahiti Belle, of how to go about making an ocean crossing as safely as possible seems to me to be one of the clearest, most concise and well-balanced summaries available, and is still quite up to date, also available on the Jester site here:http://www.jesterinfo.org/thelossoftahitibelle.html