26/07/08

“Sailor Rob”… page three model!

I had a long chat with Will Carson from the Southern Daily Echo a week or two ago and was amazed to see that the article made a full page appearance on page three of Saturday’s paper!

It’s a thoughtfully written piece entitled “On a roll of the dice…” “Sailor Rob leaves his route to chance – and the public”. It even includes a short item about Luke Rhinehart’s 1971 cult classic book The Dice Man. I’ve posted a few pictures taken by the Southern Daily Echo photographer on the Gallery.

The article begins “As round-the-world voyages go, this one will go down in history as one of the strangest. Most yachtsmen would spend months planning their next voyage, but Rob Clark plans to throw caution to the wind and sail round the globe by the throw of a dice. What is more, he is leaving it to the public to decide where he sails to….”

By Will Carson – Southern Daily Echo