I started an article for SCA a couple years ago on Sea Dart. Even sailed her a couple of times on Lake Couer d'Alene. I'll have to dig that piece back up and finish it one of these days...
Jones could spin a tale for sure, though I think he played fast and loose with the facts many times. There is a fine book about the boat called 'Sailing Among the Stars: The Story of Sea Dart' by Laural Wagers of Sandpoint ID. Great background on the boat. t On 2/5/07, W David Scobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
when sea dart was moved to idaho i did some searching and found where she was being repaired ... made seaworthy really ... by ID st. parks (she is now part of their boater education program; fitting she now sails the 'high lakes' of idaho). i couldn't get near her, but was able to get a peak. i felt as if i was allowed a secret peak at a holly relic (ie, if i found the ark of the covenant in the fictional US gov't storage facility at the end of spielberg's & lucas's 'raiders of the lost arc'). dave M15#288 (not yet named) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I second that.... Tristan Jones and his adventures sailing are great books to read. He gets the wildest ideas, and then carries them out: to sail in the lowest sea on earth and the highest. The lowest was the Dead Sea in Israel, and the highest was the Titticacca Lake in Peru. From the Titticacca Lake he then heads down the Amazon - with something like a 30 mile portage; rollers under the keel and doing it the hard way until he gets to the Amazon. Obviously, it is another Tristan Jones circumnavigation. A great story and ideal reading for winter evenings. Connie --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
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