Single Handed Transatlantic '68

[@bitcornface8306]

Tom Follett was my uncle and I currently have the trophy that he won in this race on my mantle.

[@steamboy101]

Kudos to all the brave cameramen that endured the hardships of the sea right along side each skipper. Outstanding footage! 😆

[@captainsirjackchucklebutty6147]

I was 14 and getting good enough to start winning local regattas as a teenager . But Mum said there is no money in sailing so get a proper job ! Now 67 and did cruise 75% of the world on catamarans. Thanks for the vid . I was all part of my inspiration to do up houses .zzzzzzzzzz

[@mirthofforth]

Stumbled across this video, knowing the race took place 50 years ago and wanting to find out exactly when it all happened (I was 3 years old at the time). And my father is in this video for about 5 seconds - so thank you for uploading this film!I have now dug out and read his log books from the trip - he made 3 attempts and the race was won while his boat was still under repair! But good on him for even attempting the crossing in a home-made boat. He was a braver man than I will ever be!

[@markthomasson5077]

I remember it well. Went to view the boats in Millay docks, and out for the start. Some excellent boats, some totally wacky / dangerous…we thought so. Glad they all got safely back on land. Don’t think I have seen all this footage before, very interesting. It does need someone to give a going over with a decent computer programme to clean it up.

[@asd67lkj]

One can really appreciate advances in wind vane self steering since those early days....

[@skippyone2769]

Just watching through the music was an ordeal to compare with the endurance of the subject matter. I was 9 when this took place but I do remember the trans Atlantic races that came after.

[@porttownsendwatercraftchan8218]

Thank all of you for the comments and the tidbits about your connections to this event. The Morris family is to thank for digitizing this one and there are several other reels shipped to me that I may finally have help getting digitized but if nothing else, properly cared for. We are looking into it and will update if, when, and where they could be accessed. It does not look like many have seen this one: “Woody” Broun’s Saturday Sports report featuring Tom Follett 1968..( kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmnblWujqNVpatU ).... Vendee Globe 2024 just started!

[@cartmanrlsusall]

Get all the footage in that collection online please there is so much knowledge there that needs to be preserved

[@edholm2859]

3 from sweden, hardly mentioned. the one mentioned as Ernbom, is a man named Wille on his invicta. the other two was sailing havsfidra Åke mattson and Ernbom (how ended second place :)

[@doc8312]

Bertil Enbom “Fiona” and Ake Mattson “Goodwin-2” (DQ - have got fresh water). (First Lieutenant Bertil Enbom of the Royal Göta Armored Life Guards P1 in Enköping) BTW Goodwin-2 still in the seas under Hans Johansson now.

[@videogpacheco]

Very good !!! thanks for sharing

[@voornaam3191]

So strange, to know the GPS system was discovered about TWENTY YEARS later. These skippers did need the GPS already. Why did scientists look for those satellites that late? Must have been there in '68, simply never seen them?!

[@MARIOSAILOR1]

Fantástico!!!!

[@SuperBullyone]

is it possible to buy a copy of this video? I would like to watch it a number of times.

[@edholm2859]

12.35 youll see the 3 swedes boats

[@heidifrith244]

Would I be able to download this video to share on the OSTAR Facebook page? Great to see this and there will be a lot of interest in seeing footage of this 1968 race.

[@CaptMarkSVAlcina]

All you have to do to put it together n fb is share it to fb then go send it to your fb group.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Who was filming?

[@homefront3162]

davetileguy The other hand

[@ptwatercraft]

Tom Follett had a camera with him and did film parts of his voyage. Not sure what happened to most of the footage.

[@jupitorious7925]

the musician composed the score, also sailed in the race, and filmed..

[@samwilliams662]

Tabarlys trimaran ok, big catamaran ok... then comes edith and some crazy river barge trimaran, taught how to sail a year ago by designer of the boat dr wacky, anti whale bars? Haha, what was that all about

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Whales will sneak aboard and use their blow hole to.......take advantage.....of sleepung crew

[@huguesmoisy5242]

Thaïs music is a torture