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Chilean navy helicopter rescues British yachtsman west of Cape Horn
British yachtsman who was trying to sail by himself non-stop around the world has been rescued by Chile’s navy and is currently in Punta Arenas. The 54-year-old Andrew Halcrow was forced to give up his second attempt to circumnavigate the globe after the mast on his yacht broke in a storm west of Cape Horn. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesShades of Tony Bullimore...
Mar 10th, 2014 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not really, more like Jeanne Socrates ....
Mar 10th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Always Brits that try to do these things! What is it? Self-belief? Bravery? Courage? Ability? Guts? “Never say die”?
Mar 10th, 2014 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0But we SHOULD say “Thank you” to the Chilean Navy. Given its antecedents, it no doubt feels that it has much to thank Britain and the Royal Navy for. Bernardo O'Higgins (part Irish), Thomas Cochrane (ex-Royal Navy, Scottish). Always good to be aligned with a significant naval power. Such as the Royal Navy. Thanks for the refueling.
Don't see the argies out doing things like this. Too frightened? No floating boats?
@3 Conq
Mar 10th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unusual for you to give such a warm hug to the Scots and Irish.
Don't go soft on us.
Absolute tard with no thought of putting others in danger so he can fulfill his fantasies.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Send him a hefty bill for the rescue
He needs to try something else. Clearly solo circumnavigation is not for him.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 19th century! And at least they had GUTS and HONESTY. Unlike Adams, McGuiness, Salmond, Sturgeon and the like.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Conquerer, there are many more... Former Chief of Naval Intelligence, Armada de Chile was held by Admiral Enrique O'Reilly. Most of our vessels are formerly from the UK.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Woke up this morning to overcast skies here and all my Apple equipment had automatically reset the time to an hour earlier. Being inept and trying to manually reset to the correct time, I accidentally reset my iPad to 2016.
Out of curiosity, I checked my browser for news and came across this curious article about Argentina...
10 March, 2016 Buenos Aires, Argentina (AP) — With no one else on the ballot, state media reported Monday that supreme Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner was not only again elected to the presidency in Argentina, she won with the unanimous approval of the country, which had 100% turnout.
Argentinians went to the polls on Sunday to approve the new roster of deputies for the Justicialist People's Assembly, the country's newly created legislature.
Though results for the other seats in the assembly had not yet been announced, Argentina's media quickly reported CFK had won the presidency without a single dissenting ballot.
“This is an expression of all the service personnel and people's absolute support and profound trust in our supreme leader as they single-mindedly remain loyal to her”, the state-run Argentine News Agency said.
Voters in the election have no choice who to vote for — there is only one candidate's name on the ballot for each district. Instead, they have the choice of voting yes or no, and according to official accounts virtually all choose yes.
The Justicialist People's Assembly usually meets only once a work is done by a smaller and more powerful body called the Kirchner Bolivarianism Revolutionary Supreme Council.
@7 Conq
Mar 10th, 2014 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So have the 21st century English deteriorated to the same extent, or is it only a problem on the periphery?
5 Klingon
Mar 10th, 2014 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Absolute tard with no thought of putting others in danger so he can fulfill his fantasies.”
Yeah!!! Those idiots!!! no thought for anyone else!!
Edmund Hillary?? What a w*nker!!!
Roald Amundsen?? what was he thinking of???
Scott Crossfield?? just a self absorbed a*shole!!!
That's right widdle Klingon, you stay in your perfectly ordered, safe bubble.... Leave the dangerous stuff to real men.
“Don't see the argies out doing things like this. Too frightened? No floating boats?”
Mar 10th, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0don't see or do not know?
you dont have too many books there in the islets, do you?.
”The first person to successfully circumnavigate the world single-handed via Cape Horn was Argentinian Vito Dumas, who made the voyage in 1942 in his 33-foot (10 m) ketch Lehg II”
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Dumas
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Dumas
#11
Mar 11th, 2014 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to Wiki. it was Joshua Slocum who took the title.
wika.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum
However, Dumas achievement was equally impressive.
yes joshua slocum was the first to circumnavigate the world single handed, but he did not cross the cape horn.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that is the difference.
on the other hand vito dumas did it 3 times, all of them successfully.
and now we have aurora canessa, 66 years old woman, circumnavigating the world, after crossing the atlantic single handed.
i think his partner in this new adventure is a scottish guy
http://www.shippingsrl.com/deporte/2014/viaje-2014-index.htm
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