New Boat 4 Sled

[AntsUiga]

Hi Ants, Your persistence has got us halfway home. The second brightest star in the sky is Canopus, and curiously it is not visible at a latitude north of Capitola..Just further south and into the S.Hemisphere. I am not familiar with Marvin Creamer's Globe Star Expedition. But no, that is not the epic voyage of exploration to which I refer. Carry on and guess again. You are closer than anyone. Since Philpott offered my Macapuno as a prize to her trivia a while back, I will offer a bowl of her purple yam and coconut icecream should you or another furnish the correct answer and be in her vicinity.

How many times can I be wrong, time will tell.

Another guess.

Voyage started in 1947

Common name is the Kon Tiki Expedition

Skipper - Thor Heyerdahl

Crew- Knut Haugland
Bengt Danielsson
Torsten Raaby
Herman Watzinger

And finally, the Navigator was Erik Hesselberg.

Mr Hesselberg, to the SSS courtesy phone please.

Cheers,
Ants

[sleddog]

How many times can I be wrong, time will tell.

Another guess.

Voyage started in 1947

Common name is the Kon Tiki Expedition

Skipper - Thor Heyerdahl

Crew- Knut Haugland
Bengt Danielsson
Torsten Raaby
Herman Watzinger

And finally, the Navigator was Erik Hesselberg.

Mr Hesselberg, to the SSS courtesy phone please.

Cheers,
Ants

Sorry, Mr. Ants. Not Kon Tiki. Try again.

[AntsUiga]

Sorry, Mr. Ants. Not Kon Tiki. Try again.

Sleddog - you do not make this easy. Nevertheless….

Date 1962

Voyage - recreation of Christopher Columbus voyage from Canaries to San Salvador.

Portolans were used for navigation if a historic one could be found. No equipment other than what Columbus would have carried.

Robert Marx was pilot-navigator.
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Columbus made it in 36 days. The re-enactors got to San Salvador, much later, with an emergency food drop.

Cheers,
Ants

[BobJ]

Apollo 11. Canopus is also used for space navigation.

[sleddog]

Sorry. Not recreation of Columbus , nor Apollo 11. Guess again.

[BobJ]

Then we simply disagree about which was "the most audacious, well planned, and successful voyage of exploration ever undertaken." These superlatives make the answer subjective.

Edit: I now see in post #5141 that you rephrased the question to include navigation by a family member of an SSS poster. I have no way of knowing this detail but I still think it is a space voyage - perhaps one of the Jupiter fly-bys or Voyager expeditions. Both used Canopus Star Trackers for navigation.
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[sleddog]

Then we simply disagree about which was "the most audacious, well planned, and successful voyage of exploration ever undertaken." These superlatives make the answer subjective.

Not subjective: the father of one of our posters was primary navigator. More knowledge gained than any other voyage of exploration. A bright star used as primary aid to navigation. Carry on. Wind at Salt Point currently NW 18-22, seas 6-9'.

[sleddog]

I did not rephrase. It was there from start, post 5134.

[Jonathan Gutoff]

I don't know the answer about how or what but guessing "Dazzler" Tom P. is involved.

[BobJ]

Yes, I think we're guessing the person more than the voyage.