friday, October 21, 1977
page 6
daily nebraskan
Sailing enthusiast seeks crew for world-wide cruise
By Anne Carothers
Twenty young people from across the United States
have the chance to make a 49-year-old man's dream come
true.
Phil Beach says he has been dreaming of sailing around
the world since he started sailing ten years ago. He now
has arranged to get a boat for the cruise, has sold his
$250,000 home in Florida and is waiting for applications
for crew members.
'Applicants do not necessarily have to be experienced
sailors to apply, Beach, a real estate investor in Orlando,
Fla., said. He said he was looking for people with good
character traits,. such as being level-headed, reasonably
intelligent and able to take instructions well. .
Beach said he is looking for people with "a real drive
to take a trip of this kind." He said crew members really
have to want to sail around the world because "there is
hardship on the water. It gets cold and you begin
wonder if you really want to be out there or not."
The crew will said a $400,000 155-foot schooner.
Beach said he is not able to release the name of the boat
since it is being provided by a corporation and won't
sign the contract until he gets his crew.
Sleeps 24 people
The boat sleeps 24 people comfortably and some of
the cabins are air conditioned, he said.
Beach said it is unusual to sail a boat of this size ,
around the world but that there are 50 to 60 groups per
year which sail much smaller boats around the world.
Beach said he picked a larger boat because he wanted
conveniences, such as radar. He also wanted other people
with him so he would be obligated to finish the trip.
"There are a lot of places we will be stopping at that
you would like to stop and stay forever," Beach said. If
he has other people on board, he will feel obligated to go
on, he said.
Beach plans to leave Florida in November and from
there sail to the West Indies; through the Panama Canal,
to several Polynesian Islands, Australia, Micronesia, several
Indian Ocean ports, Seychelles, Islands, Cape Town, South
America; Rio di Janeiro, the upper South American coast
and the Windward and Leeward Islands.
The total trip, called World Span I, will include 60
ports and will take about two years, Beach said.
Some will drop
Although Beach plans to spend two years sailing
around the world, he said he does not expect all the crew
to stay on two years. Some people will drop out at various
ports and he will gain others from other parts of the
world.
Beach said he has made contact through letters with
people from around the world that are interested in the
trip.
He and his wife were world travelers before they took
up sailing. Beach's wife, Irene, will be taking the trip with
him. A registered nurse, she will serve as the crew's
medical officer, he said.
Although he said he is not setting any age limit for
crew members, Beach expects most of the crew to be be
tween 20 and 30. He added that he also is not setting any
male-female quotas, although he expects the ratio will be
about half and half.
Beach said he anticipates receiving nearly 300 appli
cations. Of those 300, he will approve 40 crew members.
"A couple of months before the cruise people will drop
out for one reason or another and we will be lucky if
we have 20 people left," he said.
The crew will pay room and board only, which will
be approximately $150 to $200.
Beach said the cruise's purpose will be to show the
boat at various ports in the world since the trip is being
partially sponsored by the Ocean Sailing Society. The
Ocean Sailing Society is dedicated to the preserva
tion and use of large sail boats, Beach said.
Arts center, improved storm sewers
get Chamber of Commerce's approval
The Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
voted Wednesday to support bond issues for both the pro
posed Civic Center and improved storm sewers.
Lincoln voters will cast their ballots on the two issues
short
stuff
The Distributive Educa
tion Club of America will
sell red and white pom
poms before the Nebraska
Colorado football game to
support "Buff the Buffa
loes" Day. The pom-poms
are 50 cents and will be
sold at various locations on
campus.
Undergraduate applica
tions for the life Sciences
r
Student Advisory Commit
tee are still available.' The
committee is composed of
three graduate students and
two undergraduate life
Sciences majors. Applica
tions should be submitted
by Nov. 1, ;
The UNL French Club
will meet today from 3
p.m. to 5 pjn. in Branni
ganV 1228 P St., basement
level.
The Older Students
Mixer, designed to bring the
older, non-traditional stu
dents together, will meet at
7;30 p.m. at UMHE Com
monplace, 333 N. 14th St.
Nov. 8. The $7 million Civic Center Bond will pay for a
performing arts center to be built connecting the old City
Hall and old Federal building at 10th and O Streets.
The bond issue for new storm sewers is $6.8 million.
The board's president-elect, Dick White, said some
board members wanted to support one of the issues but
not both. The majority of the board voted for both
because "both are in the interest of the entire com
munity," he said.
The board also voted to support a reorganization of
evening city bus routes.
City buses now run Monday and Thursday evening
only. The proposed consolidation of routes would not
change the service to the main city campus stop at 12th
and Q Streets.
Routes serving East Campus would be consolidated.
Buses would leave from University Place, returning
through Bethany Place. The two areas now are served by
separate routes.
The route consolidations are being recommended by
the city transportation department to save money on the
evening routes.
White said although the bus service is one where an
operating loss is acceptable, the "consolidation will give
reasonable quality service but will cut down the deficit in
coming years."
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