{"id":30231,"date":"2016-05-23T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30231"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:23:55","slug":"qotd-yachting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/qotd-yachting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Yachting news"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is pleasing to see a man travelling in style. Erkan G\u00fcrsoy, age sixty-eight, took the northern route for his latest visit to his native Turkey, which is usual when flying to the Old World from British Columbia. But he gave this a twist by avoiding the airlines. Instead he negotiated the Northwest Passage, then crossed the rough Atlantic (weathering a hurricane), in a 36-foot aluminum yacht of his own construction. The <em>Altan Girl<\/em>, and her master, arrived safely at \u00c7anakkale (near Troy in the Dardanelles), somewhat dimpled by the ice. Polar bears were also among Mr G\u00fcrsoy\u2019s perils, as I gather from reports.<\/p>\n<p>Most solo sailors come from inland locations, I have noticed, and this one from the Turkish interior. My theory is that people raised along the coast would know better. My own frankly escapist sailing fantasies owe much to a childhood spent mostly well inland, so that I was fully four years before I\u2019d even seen an ocean. I remember that first encounter vividly. It turned out to be larger than I had expected.<\/p>\n<p>Mr G\u00fcrsoy makes his living in Nanaimo manufacturing aluminum boats, mostly as tenders for larger vessels. He calls his stock-in-trade the \u201cnon-deflatable\u201d \u2014 the hulls ringed around with fat aluminum irrigation tubing. He has a patent on that, and while admitting that his craft are rather ugly, notes that they are hard to sink. (From photographs I see that he is not much into concealing welds, either.) They are also rather noisy, for those riding inside, and they do bounce about on the waves. But on few other ships can one drum so impressively, to discourage those pesky bears, when trapped in ice that is crushing you like a pop can.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, from the accounts I have read, and by the full Aristotelian definition, a magnificent man.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2015\/02\/11\/yachting-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yachting news&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2015-02-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is pleasing to see a man travelling in style. Erkan G\u00fcrsoy, age sixty-eight, took the northern route for his latest visit to his native Turkey, which is usual when flying to the Old World from British Columbia. But he gave this a twist by avoiding the airlines. Instead he negotiated the Northwest Passage, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[247,491,1016,202,249],"class_list":["post-30231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-arctic","tag-bc","tag-northwestpassage","tag-travel","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7RB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30232,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions\/30232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}