Contributing Source - John Starbuck

Source: John Starbuck
from personal correspondence, August 2001

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...My wife and I met Tristan first at a visit he made 
to Orange Coast College about 1976. We are rag sailors,
 and had read everything he had written up until that
 time. Then in 1982-83, we met him again in San Diego,  
not long before he started his trip on his catamaran
 "Outward Leg". At that time we had all his books until
 then and he was happy to sign them for us.  
Our meetings with him were casual and not intimate.
I question that anyone, even his several crews, got to
know him intimately as, although he was gregarious,
 he was also a very private person.	
 
I think that the closest to really knowing him would be 
Henry... who kept me posted. Also, I know that Henry
spent time with him in Thailand and Tristan named his
boat with which he crossed the Phuket area in Henry's 
honor. 
 
We do have all his books, as well as the Video interview
at "Lion's Head" in Greenwich Village. Also, we contributed
to The Atlantis Society and he sent us a "Mobile" after 
leaving San Diego which he inscribed "Onboard Outward  
Leg, 3rd November 1983. LA 16 - 15 N, LO 100 - 58 W." 
- That location would be about 60 miles off Acupulco. 
 
We did receive a bit of correspondence from Tristan,
as well as various newsletters that he sent on his last trip 
that might be of some interest to your endeavor. 
If you care, just let me know your mailing address and 
I'll send copies. 
 
Congratulations on what you are doing to help preserve 
the memory of my favorite hero and if there is anything 
else that I can do, just let me know. 
 
John Starbuck... 
 
P.S. - In 1994 we traced (by car) Tristan's trip on the Rhine, 
Main & Danube as far as Ingolstadt and Passau.  Of course, 
the canal had since been completed. We visited several of the 
Pubs in Bamberg where he had undoubtedly hoisted a few 
and drank to his health!  Then in Passau, at the quay were tied 
up the vessels "Dneiper",  StadtWein", "Rousse" & "Volga" 
awaiting tourists to the Black Sea. That brought back memories 
as Tristan had mentioned each of these on his trip to that  
destination 10 years earlier! 

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