100 DAYS AT SEA IN A JUNK-RIGGED SAILBOAT WITHOUT AN ENGINE OR ELECTRONICS

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  • Опубліковано 4 січ 2018
  • Kris Larsen spent 104 days at sea in his junk-rigged sailbaot blown off course without an engine or any electronics. Mr. Larsen used celestial navigation forsaking GPS, EPIRBS, and even a toilet on his minimalist sailboat as he sailed around the world.
    His wife, Nat Uhing, wrote in her blog that his boat lacked basic electrical gear and an engine. She wrote:
    "...since he built his steel Chinese-junk-rigged sailboat and started sailing around without the usual engine, GPS, EPIRB, digital charts, radio, solar panels, water-maker, or toilet."
    Mr. Larsen and his wife dispute that this was a sailboat rescue. He only asked for a tow into Maui because there was no wind.
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    USCGC Galveston Island and a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Maui patrol offshore Maui in support of Operation Kohola Guardian Feb. 14, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa E. McKenzie/Released)
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    The Coast Guard working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Land and Natural Resources in support of Operation Kohola Guardian Feb. 14, 2017. Crews aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Galveston Island (WPB 1349) and a 45-foot response boat medium from Station Maui patrolled the Maui Triangle in an effort to protect the migrating humpback whale population, educate the public and deter illegal activity. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Levasseur/Released)
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    The Coast Guard, and a good Samaritan assisted a 62-year old Australian mariner in his homemade sailing vessel three and a half miles west of the Kihei Boat Ramp, Maui, Dec. 31, 2017. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew from Coast Guard Station Maui safely towed the 30-foot sailing vessel Kehaar Darwin to Sugar Beach, Maui. (U.S. Coast Guard video/Released)

КОМЕНТАРІ • 29

  • @SlowBoatSailing
    @SlowBoatSailing  6 років тому

    Check out this story of a sailboat that could not reach port in over 5 months...
    ua-cam.com/video/vYQLT4jxAcM/v-deo.html

  • @siggyuke
    @siggyuke 4 роки тому +12

    The world needs more adventurers like this in it.

    • @andrewjansen9702
      @andrewjansen9702 2 роки тому +1

      I know right? He didn’t use engines or nothing, it was all nature, and know-how.

    • @TC-yx1qt
      @TC-yx1qt 5 місяців тому

      No engine isn't a big deal, the navigating by the stars is incredible @@andrewjansen9702

  • @josephlai9759
    @josephlai9759 3 роки тому +8

    A very special person to be respected.

  • @IldenMelder
    @IldenMelder Рік тому +1

    This guy is an inspiration

  • @andrewjansen9702
    @andrewjansen9702 2 роки тому +2

    Holy crap! So this guy went all old school and did things the way sailors did back centuries ago when we had old sailing ships. Unbelievable. I can’t believe my ears.

  • @amanout
    @amanout 6 років тому +17

    He has also self-published several books about his life and voyages (truly self-published, the two I have are handbound in cardboard with used nautical chart dust covers). His wife has them for sale in an Etsy shop, available when she's in port. Some inspiring reading.

    • @davejob630
      @davejob630 6 років тому +1

      I have one of those.. makes for an interesting read.

    • @aNaturalist
      @aNaturalist 5 місяців тому

      Thanks for telling us that.

    • @ximono
      @ximono 15 днів тому

      Unfortunately, the books are no longer for sale. Anyone who has one should consider themselves lucky.

  • @houseofsolomon2440
    @houseofsolomon2440 6 років тому +13

    'Electronics-free' 🥇

  • @jeffreybrijohnson
    @jeffreybrijohnson 3 роки тому +4

    Cool man

  • @wedgeii2
    @wedgeii2 6 років тому +9

    How did he get through the Panama Canal with out a motor, Do they tow you?

    • @SlowBoatSailing
      @SlowBoatSailing  6 років тому +8

      will edge He probably would have had to put on an outboard. We know that he struggled getting the Canal transit approval and he told the USCG his last Port was in Panama. Beyond that I am not aware of anything else that has been written about his transit. Mr. Larsen has declined to talk about his trip with me and other members of the media.

    • @hicmad
      @hicmad 4 роки тому +1

      @O R Y X You can be towed by another vessel.

    • @SuperBullyone
      @SuperBullyone 3 роки тому +3

      they raft you up with a boat that has a engine.

    • @Cayotan
      @Cayotan 6 місяців тому +2

      He got lifted out with a crane and trucked it across to the pacific side and craned back in. He inquired about being towed through the canal but was told he would have to have a towing boat with two engines.

  • @radnwavy
    @radnwavy 3 роки тому +2

    You say junk, I say wind waker

  • @TheShorterboy
    @TheShorterboy 5 років тому +4

    lol nothing like a crazy russian

  • @MrRourk
    @MrRourk 6 років тому +2

    Donald Riddler was not so fortunate

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake 4 роки тому +6

    He should have refused the tow from the. USCG. He wasnt in an emergency situation.
    "Disoriented". Anyone in a sail boat gets that from time to time. Now he will be forever remembered as Larson the "russian" that we had to rescue.

    • @SlowBoatSailing
      @SlowBoatSailing  4 роки тому +4

      Pat Aherne I don’t think he could have refused a tow from the USCG once they cane out. In the end, it did not make a difference. It gave him a chance to restock and not bob around in the calms.

    • @stevedoe1630
      @stevedoe1630 3 роки тому +1

      One thing I know for sure, 100-days without taking liberty from your vessel changes a person. Seen it a few times with commercial mariners on big ships (tankers, container carriers, etc)… their personality changes in a way that is irreversible. Besides calling them “quirky”, it’s hard to describe… but it’s easy to identify.

    • @Cayotan
      @Cayotan 6 місяців тому +1

      Great sailor.
      met him in panama

    • @ximono
      @ximono 15 днів тому

      I'll remember the USCG as the dumb Americans who thought one of the world's most self-reliant and experienced sailors needed rescuing.

  • @nonimus2030
    @nonimus2030 3 роки тому +4

    God fucking damn! I appreciate simplicity but that's too far for me 😂

  • @migmo3126
    @migmo3126 4 роки тому +3

    Load that Metal Junk up with more Vodka and perhaps Mushrooms and Maui Wowie Gummy Bears and some more fishing gear for that Salty Dog and cast those lines. Imagine if he gets to China and the Corona Virus hit like the Black Plague and a Russian upstages the Chinese on a Modern Metal Junk is the future storyline.🌈🐲😆🤪🦞🦀🦑🦐🐙🍜🥠🥔🍍🥥🍄🍹🍸🍺🥂🍾🎏⛩🏆⛵🏝🏖🌊🌦🌎