tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post514667994180649344..comments2023-08-20T11:07:28.396+01:00Comments on Freeborn John: Strange voyagePeter Risdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-13509977351673499772009-08-25T13:45:57.057+01:002009-08-25T13:45:57.057+01:00Crowhurst is the best-known of them, but the whole...Crowhurst is the best-known of them, but the whole race was astonishing.<br /><br />People, some of whom couldn't sail at all (Chay Blyth, by his own admission) set off in boats not really suitable for a weekend cross-Channel hop (all of them except Suhaili, really), expecting to sail round the world south of the Great Capes.<br /><br />It really is amazing that only one of them went mad and died during the voyage. At least two others were left unhinged by the experience.<br /><br />Knoxy was the true hero.<br /><br />He still is.<br /><br />(Recommended book about this: A Voyage for Madmen, by Peter Nicholls)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-13502398293870124352009-07-24T15:49:16.056+01:002009-07-24T15:49:16.056+01:00The fact is, though, he deliberately left the evid...The fact is, though, he deliberately left the evidence that he had not sailed round the world. Until this was found, everyone assumed he had. Now, his reasons were eccentric... he felt that as a newly incarnated God he should not be guilty of the sin of concealment that the older Gods were guilty of. But nonetheless, that's what he did. He wasn't a conman. It's a very odd story.Peter Risdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-63591339268827067692009-07-23T17:40:23.828+01:002009-07-23T17:40:23.828+01:00"Whatever his deceits, they were unplanned an..."Whatever his deceits, they were unplanned and incremental, rooted in self-deceit"<br /><br /><br />No they where not. Each was concived as an act of decption. One by one. <br /><br />Fuck him. Conman-thief. I hope he burns in hell. For sure, he deserved all he got as a lyning decitetfull twat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com