{"id":1125,"date":"2020-08-21T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:50:51","slug":"great-story-the-man-who-sailed-around-the-world-with-no-instruments-not-even-a-compass-or-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Great story: the man who sailed around the world with no instruments (not even a compass or watch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e95e2b33200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marvin creamer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263e95e2b33200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e95e2b33200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 160px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Marvin creamer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved it. This is an obituary from the NY Times for &quot;<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;\">Marvin Creamer, a Mariner Who Sailed Like the Ancients, Dies at 104&quot;.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/17\/sports\/sailing\/marvin-creamer-a-mariner-who-sailed-like-the-ancients-dies-at-104.html\">No GPS for him, not even a sextant; the sun and the stars did nicely. He was the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;\">And here&#39;s a website dedicated to the man and the voyage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"Globe Star Voyage\">http:\/\/www.globestar.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved it. This is an obituary from the NY Times for &quot;Marvin Creamer, a Mariner Who Sailed Like the Ancients, Dies at 104&quot;. No GPS for him, not even a sextant; the sun and the stars did nicely. He was the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments. And here&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}