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Villan 
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 Topic: TV: The Schoolboy Who Sailed the WorldPosted: 05 Nov 09 at 8:58pm |
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Channel 4, in 3 mins.
Folowing Michael Perhams voyage around the world. |
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chrisg
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Posted: 05 Nov 09 at 10:31pm |
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Have to say - fair play Michael. Watching the program, I'm gobsmacked. You've overcome a lot of problems that weren't your fault, and have come over very well!
Congratulations if you ever read this! Live the dream! Awesome. Very impressed. we're all just playing at it really arent we..... |
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Posted: 05 Nov 09 at 11:00pm |
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Fantastic achievement by a young man ... but it did look like a parent living a dream through their child.
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Posted: 06 Nov 09 at 7:43am |
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Very good.
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Andymac
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Posted: 06 Nov 09 at 8:56am |
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What a remarkable young man. Beats hanging around street corners in a hoodie. |
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laser4000
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Posted: 06 Nov 09 at 9:15am |
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Fair play to the guy - thought he came across very well. Not sure many of us would have dealt with some of those situations very well.
Imagine being right in the middle of the pacific, miles from anywhere and anyone and then being dumped by your girlfriend (1st serious?) ... |
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Jamie600
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Posted: 06 Nov 09 at 9:52am |
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I thought that too, quite selfish of her I thought, as something like that could have tipped him over the edge when he was clearly already struggling to cope with the solitude. For the sake of a few emails she could have at least strung it out until he got back.
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Posted: 06 Nov 09 at 2:03pm |
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Great programme but I was truly astonished that he set off (was allowed to set of) without having sailed the boat on his own. He and his family must have had great faith in him. This was a proper race boat and would have needed thoroughly shaking down after a refit to iron out the inevitable teething problems.(i.e this was not a comfortable bomb proof cruiser constructed with mass produced reliable parts). Needless to say he had some serious and time consuming problems, some of which might have been resolved before the voyage through proper trialling. There is obvuiously a sensible balance between going totally OTT with the preparation etc and being gung ho but I thought leaving so clearly under prepared was edging towards the latter. I'm not sure that i'd have let my son go in the same sitiuation ? Regardless of any of this - he clearly did brilliantly. |
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Trouble when chasing a record like "youngest to sail around the world" then that dosn't give you lots of time to test stuff as of course you get older and will miss the record. I think we was very lucky not to end up in a lot of bother ... |
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Roy Race
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The part just before he set off was amazing. The dad was trying to explain about wind angles to his son. I thought, "the lad can't sail! holy ****!"
His dad was a nutter. Very highly strung, judging by the way he was shouting at his son about not being head to wind. I thought he seemed like quite a nasty character and it was no surprise to me when he turned out to be a stark raving mad foaming at the mouth god-botherer. I had to switch off after the 3rd autopilot failure out of sheer embarassment. |
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