tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post3191317790177428416..comments2024-03-10T07:03:43.915-04:00Comments on The Log of Spartina: in search of Washington TuttleStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-10566244712648587442009-04-19T19:49:00.000-04:002009-04-19T19:49:00.000-04:00Your information helps date Tut's trip as he refer...Your information helps date Tut's trip as he refers to de Gast's book. So maybe late 70's or early 80's for the catboat circumavigation. It was a great trip regardless of time frame. <br /><br />steveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-16333768782670112542009-04-19T10:14:00.000-04:002009-04-19T10:14:00.000-04:00Steve -
This is GREAT! When you mentioned that so...Steve -<br /><br />This is GREAT! When you mentioned that someone had done this trip years ago it sounded like something abstract you had heard of; I had no idea you had a few pages of information.<br /><br />The trip was also done in the 70s by a photographer called Robert de Gast (occasionally does freelance work for WoodenBoat now) and chronicled in his book "Western Wind, Eastern Shore," which I'm looking at as I type this.<br /><br />De Gast sailed in May and took a month, returning home to Annapolis on Memorial Day weekend. His first several days were chilly and even frosty at one point. I can't imagine trying to do it in August. In a catboat. In a matter of weeks. Yet I heartily applaud both the achievement and the emphasis on cold beer!<br /><br />It's hard to imagine a craft better-suited for such a trip than the Pathfinder. Enough open-water capability that you could handle even a small craft advisory on the Bay if you got caught out, but lithe enough to raise the board and go poling up some little trickling creeks for the night.<br /><br />Man. I can almost smell that muddy Tidewater humid air now. Fireflies and bats and high-stepping herons. Someday! <br /><br />Many thanks for this glimpse of Washington Tuttle.<br /><br />SethS R Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08934872671798326776noreply@blogger.com