When I uncover the magazines and articles I will report my findings to the
West Wight Web mail list.
Have you read the article "Bumblebee sails to Mexico" on the WWP web page?
I found that one in Pacific Skipper magazine. It's about an attempt to sail
a P14 from California to Hawaii, but after a dismasting, the skipper jury
rigged and sailed back to Mexico, also losing a rudder gudgeon along the
way, so he had to fabricate a new gudgeon of rope, which quickly wore out
and had to be replaced repeatedly. He just missed getting blown past the
tip of Baja.
Harry Gordon
P124 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA
>In a sidebar to an article which first appeared in the old _Small Boat
>Journal_ (February/March 1985), Larry Brown noted that, beginning in
>1970, David Diefenderfer launched his Potter on a series of "inland
>odysseys" exploring the "remote and untraveled waterways of North and
>Central America." This tantalizing hint is echoed in the "Abbreviated
>History" compiled by International Marine, Inc. and reprinted on the
>Potter web-site.
>
>I'd like to know more. Mr. Diefenderfer apparently died before 1985
>(at the age of 80), without publishing anything that I've been able to
>locate. Can anyone point me toward a source for further information
>about Mr. Diefenderfer and his voyages?
>
>
>And, in a more-or-less related matter, any reader who shares my
>interest in small-boat adventures might want to visit Eric Eldrid's
>"Eldritch Press" web-pages <http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/index.html>
>before they're shut down for good on 11 November. Mr. Eldrid has
>scanned a number of out-of-copyright tales by Stevenson, Bishop,
>MacGregor and others and made them all available on-line, often with
>the original maps and illustrations.
>
>The small boats in question aren't Potters, of course, but the site is
>still worth a visit.
>
>
>Forrest Brownell
>
>South Colton NY
>forrest@slic.com