59: CLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown
English - October 19, 2017 04:00 - 26 minutes - 14.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWilderness Sports Leisure seastories boatconstruction boatdesign boats sailing seamanship Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
CLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS
Jo Hudson speaks of "thrilling" incidents recalled, in 2004, from his first seafaring voyage (in the mid-1960s) in his owner-built 30' Piver Nimble trimaran, from California to Australia. These Capers are the only examples of Jo's recorded voice telling his own stories.
He is very matter-of-fact, not so effusive as I am, but he sailed a lot farther than I did, mostly in boats that I designed and he built or re-built. This is a glimpse at the client's side of a 55 year-long designer/client relationship, the ending of which has left me feeling like a single-hander. Please know that Jo died of gradual heart failure and final pneumonia, without pain, in his wife Sherry's arms, while being liberally kissed by his "family" (their dogs).