What a Nutter

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by Wotname

Took 28/29 posts before it became a gun thread

Doesn't necessarily take a 'gun' to be 'properly armed'.

[CPseudonym]

He obviously perused many of the threads here after watching Captain Ron. Isn't the prevailing wisdom to just go for it, cuz "If its gonna happen, it'll happen out there."

[rebel heart]

Originally Posted by Hud3

He probably posted his plan on an Internet forum and was told to "just do it!"

Just cut the docklines and go!

lol

[David_Old_Jersey]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

I can't see that his boat was in any way inferior to the hide coracles that were used in Ireland and other locales a thousand years ago, and no one called those folks crazy for using them. According to the photos he did literally have both paddles in the water and the rest, well, haven't we all had days with light wind and adverse current?

I doubt human nature has changed very much in a 1000 years, so am pretty confident that there would have been plenty of folks saying they were crazy, whether from the low odds of success or due to falling off the edge of the world.

My suspicion is that many (most?!) of voyages in craft like these were as much by accident as design or folks fleeing by any means possible.....or by nutters!.......and yer only hear about the successes from those times.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Andrew B.

Doesn't necessarily take a 'gun' to be 'properly armed'.

True yet any point in being "properly armed" when only "single handed".

[FSMike]

Have I told everybody about my new semi-automatic Rocna?