European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Voyage of a lifetime by Don Tate staff Wriler tha Lilllie while bail went Twining and rolling and plunging through the Atlantic rim and great Black breaking Waves. Pm and wot with ,1 funny taste in hit Mouth like a straight a Iol fail Nivone mixing with Fillari of of his Srin link Leet i the it i indent Mariner of Tami behind the spinning Helm of the storm pushed owl int won Cicro Ieper of he had made a Teal to tical error venturing out Here. Ail Veluri. Down with the Dull the predictable. Up Wilh the bring i he unknown. So How would to like to sail across the Atlantic his French Friend. Leo had asked him one Day in jest it was an offer Dave Spradling who described himself As not Fay nature a Seaman More by nature a landlubber could easily yes most easily have refused. Bui later he mentioned to hit wife that sailing nearly 1,000 Miles across the vasty deeps might be As he put in in interesting experience. She agreed just like Ihal. Why dont you do it his children agreed he certainly ought to do it. His friends agreed he certainly ought to do in. Either everybody was trying to deep six him he said or they really wanted him to seize the Day of adventure. I preferred to believe the so Jusi like that he was going to do what Columbus had done and in it smaller ship. Only Columbus did t know what was on the other Side. I was fairly confident we weren t going to fall off the Cut Why in the world did it. Col. David Spradling a practical Man approaching 47, in a sane Safe Job As chief of services at the Usa eur Community and family support directorate in sch Ellingen Germany and a longtime landlubber Ever presume la sail an Ocean Why did i do Iti hmm.? he ,." and the it the Light of pure logic upon his face Lincir in Kiil. If til did t or j tit Lii l like Lwi Blinn along uni thousand Miles out into the i Prink incl bring swallowed up forever bumping into storms sea monsters and who knows what dangers of the deep Well Spradling says Wilh a laugh put that Way 1 did t exactly develop a Case of High school hysteric thrilled ind frightened beyond All Liefer. No i m a Little too mundane for that. I looked at the Challenge at the nuts and bolts i needed to do to make even if to did t end up in the jaws of the Greal White whale or gum eating s did still. I checked my insurance. And what arrangements were needed in Chise we got nut then,1 find disappeared. Never came Back the aria Hranj it i Jav from Dot or. Practical thing. Like if he of prod it Sun i smites would tic obliged to tie his body to the extra Anchor and Sciss him overboard. On the u Sidt he was going with ten Kri imps a proven Sili Jor who liar Mash up l hit unpredictable Atlantic before on the Down Side sprightly Cother . The fact that i grew up in the Middle of acres of Grassland in Oklahoma certainly added to myst i thus carrying a Good Compass and bottles and Buttles and bottles of water they cast off from Dakar in we St Africa at 2 to . On the 7th of january in the White boat Wilh the Black nest named the Arza Chena bound for Barbados in the Antilles. He still does t know what Arza Chena Means. It will always be the it had a Mainsail a Jib a Small emergency engine for puttering in and out of ports and Vuk 38-Fei l Long and about eight feet at the widest Point which looks extremely Inge in your living room but extremely Liny in lie ote,m." the first fact of boat life in the Atlantic to impress him was the elemental rolling. Rolling this Way rolling that Way. Sometimes Little Rolls sometimes big he tied himself in his bunk when sleeping or i would have fallen out in a trying to do up Hups in t he bunk he did out. Fun exercise. I fount you Noe Dod at least three Contact Points Losi jut up. Mim of Ihu time i went around in a harness Aillik Hud to the i Folini or or something to keep Bruni going in i Vury 2-1-hour in1 Ihahn a Linn s fur tour ind Livi a Kier i Hick Iier Iii Chr t , ring the use of if Violani in i the nuts Ami tills of , of listing Init Una Urlini ii in but Kiili Len iv.avi". In to riots Matt tiny Jpn i 987
