William F. Stark
The Man
He took part to the last commercial voyage of a windjammer without engine around the Cape Horn. The passage took 127 days from Port Victoria to Falmouth. Like Heinrich Hauser and Hilary Tunstall-Behrens, he wrote a book (2) on this adventure. He died soon after in 2003. |
The Photos
The Passat at Port Victoria in 1949 |
The bowsprit of the Pamir |
The Captain Verner Bjorkfelt, 1949 |
Port Victoria, 1949 |
Under finnish flag |
The Passat seen through a Porthole |
The aftercastle |
The aft Deck |
A rainbow after a squall |
Hotcha King will kill a pig on the Deck |
Hotcha King will kill a pig on the Deck |
A fire bucket behind the chart-house |
In sight of the Marco Polo after 71 days |
Passing the Queen Mary |
Passing a french fishing boat |
A shark's tail for the bowsprit |
William Stark (3) |
At the top of the main mast |
William Stark and his watch, 07/1949 (1) |
William Stark and his watch, 07/1949 (1) |
William Stark and his watch, 07/1949 (1) |
References
Under finnish flag (2)
The Heinrich Hauser movie
The book of Tunstall-Behrens
The voyages of the Pamir
The Pamir