This Creamer guy has no sextant? The porn-spinoffs write themselves.

Like the apocryphal vocabulary mistake about Magellan- he circumcised the world with a 36 foot cutter.

That's cool and amazing and everything, but this bugs me.

"I was considered to be crazy or stupid or just out of it," Professor Creamer said in a 2015 interview with Rowan University. "When I took off there were two people who believed I would come back."

One was his wife Blanche. The other, despite the welter of naysayers, was Professor Creamer himself

From this you get the idea that he's making this trip by himself. But if you read the whole thing, it's clear that he had a crew. Did they all think they weren't coming back? How much was he paying them?

He told them they were running out for cigarettes.

I had the same reaction as 3, and would love to hear more about the crew.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.....

A local boy! When my wife joined the faculty at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), he was retired but still went to faculty social events. As you'd expect, a story teller.

The monument/sundial honoring Professor Creamer and his voyage on the Rowan University campus is kind of interesting, has the most professorial inscription imaginable, quoting Dr. Creamer ever: "There's a monument out here that's going to sneakily teach geography after I'm long gone."

https://publicart.rowan.edu/sculptures/endeavor-2015/
https://publicart.rowan.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Marvin-Creamer-Monument-Program.pdf

That was a nice article -- thanks Ogged! These days all of the good stories are necessary--for sharing and self.

7:. Thanks, unimaginative! That program answered some of my questions about the crew. There were 2 or 3 crew members on the boat for the whole trip, but they rotated- he was the only one that made the whole trip.

It says he had navigational tools and a radio locked up, presumably for emergency use. Maybe he's reinterpreting, for the sake of the story, people predicting he wouldn't make it in the sense that he wouldn't achieve his goal, would have to open the locker to navigate / call for help.

10: OTOH, a) sailing around the world is risky whatever kit you have, and b) he could have got into more trouble than opening the locker could have got him out of.

"We're going to need a bigger locker."