11/30/2023 0 Comments Captain ron bandConfronted by pirates and with Captain Ron injured, it’s up to the Harvey family to make the boat function on sail power alone or else they are going to die. Martin despises Captain Ron, and for everything that goes wrong with the journey, Martin blames the affable skipper. As the journey begins, skepticism gives way to downright hatred. This laid-back beach bum does not instill confidence in Martin. To make matters worse, the boat skipper hired to help the Harvey family navigate to Miami, is Captain Ron. On arrival, the memories of an elegant yacht, give way to a trashy boat that is barely above the water line. One day while he is navigating the elevator at the office, he learns that his uncle has died, and bequeathed his yacht Wanderer to Martin.Įxcited from his childhood memories sailing with his uncle, Martin convinces his wife Katherine and two kids Caroline and Ben to fly down to a remote island, San Pomme de Terre (what an awesome name for an island) and sail the boat to Miami and sell it for a profit. Martin Harvey lives a hectic life in an unfulfilling job in Chicago. This Caribbean voyage will be impossible to forget. We flew with whatever part it was that the engine needed to get him back stateside.It’s cold outside where I am, and what better way to shake off the winter blues, then by setting sail with Martin Short and Kurt Russell in Captain Ron. Then the living area, then the galley, and capt’s quarters in the rear with a King equivalent and 1/2 bath.įor reasons still unknown to me, dad took the Wanderer down to Roatan during Y2K and got stranded down there. 3 staterooms: forward had a 2-bunk bed and a hidden toilet, mid was a 1-bunk on top of storage (full shower bathroom directly across). The inside is (or, was) all hand carved teak. It looks like the teak hasn’t been refinished since we did it. I can’t stand that movie anymore, or the Macarena (my mom thought it would be cute for all crew to stop what they were doing and do the gotdamn Macarena 30 miles off the coast for every charter.)Īt some point she lost her main mast (teak, cracked down the center), my dad was the one that went with the green aluminum main and mizzen. I spent a lot of time as crew on charters in the gulf. So, my family is the one that bought and chartered it in Kemah in the 90s. These weren’t all Roman innovations, but the nature of such a highly interconnected world spurred such developments on Carthage (or Qart Hadasht) is the best known such colony, as it’s almost directly west of Tyre.almost as if they followed the progress of the wandering star (today Venus, to them identified with Astarte) from east to west across the sea.ġ sailing and method changed a lot over the course of the thousands of years called the ancient world as the Roman Empire brought everything closer together and improved navigation, routes, etc. This established their trade empire and colonies at vast distances from their ‘mother cities’ of Tyre and Sidon. If I recall from some research I did, coming out of the Bronze Age, the Phoenicians were the only people in the Mediterranean who sailed at night and out of sight of land because of their skill with navigation. 1 As /u/Nolubrication mentions, celestial navigation was demanding, even in the relatively more modern era of sailing. Many sailors in the ancient Mediterranean kept the coast in sight for their entire journey.
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