Trans Baltic see on the dinghy

the worrell 1000 race is the madest thing i have eva seen

or you could look at http://www.catamaran.co.uk/madcat.asp

that shows some of the things that have been done and are still to be done!!!

Good point. Didn't two guys in a Hobie do a transit of the Northwest passage in the late 80's?

We met two completely mad French lads in a Hobie 21 in Casablanca who were cruising down the coast of Africa with tents & sleeping bags in the hulls. They were running into problems off the coast of Morocco 'cos the swell was over 8m (making beach landing a bit too exciting) and the ports are over 300miles apart on the Atlantic coast!

I dunno if they made it to Essaouria as we went straight to the Canaries

Frank Dye crossed the North Sea from N. Scotland to Norway in a wayfarer. This was ages ago and the boat (a wooden wayfarer called 'Wanderer') is in the Falmouth Maritime Museum.

Frank & his wife Margaret have written a couple of books about their adventures, including one about crossing the North sea. He described a storm where he took down all the sail, lashed himself to the benches and was rolled repeatedly for hours. Pretty amazing stuff!