RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 30, 2023 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2023 at 4:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
After being cast adrift by the mutineers of HMS Bounty with 20 men in a 23 foot open boat designed for 10 and weighed down until there is barely 9 inches of freeboard, without navigation instruments or charts, and with food enough for only 5 days, Captain Bligh rallied the men to sail the little boat for 45 days in stormy mostly weather, using only a pocket watch and his memory of the charts for navigation, to hit an almost exact landfall 4000 miles to the west at Kupang in what is now Indonesia.
Bligh’s feat of seamanship remains unparalleled. This remains the longest open boat journey on the record.
Bligh’s feat of seamanship remains unparalleled. This remains the longest open boat journey on the record.
