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<blockquote data-quote="Meadred" data-source="post: 1773251" data-attributes="member: 23833">A great source for inspiration in this matter could be a book called &quot;The Pirate of Tobruk&quot;. Unfortuantely, I'm at work so I cant give you the author's name or the publishing company right now, but I'll get back to you with that.Anyway, in short the book is a biography of a quite remarkable man - an Aussie nonetheless. He learned to sail on the last great sail ships in the early 1900's, and through all sorts of adventures ended up in the Royal Australian Navy (or Naval Reserves, don't remember) during WWII. He served in the Mediterreanen, where he went through all sorts of stuff. He finally ended up commanding a captured Italian sailing vessel, which he used to bring supplies to Tobruk. He did quite a few trips, sometimes right under the nose of the Germans and Italians. He got shot so badly in the arm during an attempt to escape from the Axis that they had to amputate it, but he kept on serving. I can't come close to tell his story as well as the book does, so try to find it. Well, I hope you may glean something from it, and hey - this guy's a larger-than-life Aussie hero, so I thought you might like it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Cheers,MeadredEdit: &quot;The Pirate of Tobruk - A Sailor's Life On The Seven Seas, 1916-1948&quot; by Alfred B. Palmer, published by Naval Institute Press, Maryland 1994.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Meadred, post: 1773251, member: 23833"] A great source for inspiration in this matter could be a book called "The Pirate of Tobruk". Unfortuantely, I'm at work so I cant give you the author's name or the publishing company right now, but I'll get back to you with that. Anyway, in short the book is a biography of a quite remarkable man - an Aussie nonetheless. He learned to sail on the last great sail ships in the early 1900's, and through all sorts of adventures ended up in the Royal Australian Navy (or Naval Reserves, don't remember) during WWII. He served in the Mediterreanen, where he went through all sorts of stuff. He finally ended up commanding a captured Italian sailing vessel, which he used to bring supplies to Tobruk. He did quite a few trips, sometimes right under the nose of the Germans and Italians. He got shot so badly in the arm during an attempt to escape from the Axis that they had to amputate it, but he kept on serving. I can't come close to tell his story as well as the book does, so try to find it. Well, I hope you may glean something from it, and hey - this guy's a larger-than-life Aussie hero, so I thought you might like it! :) Cheers, Meadred Edit: "The Pirate of Tobruk - A Sailor's Life On The Seven Seas, 1916-1948" by Alfred B. Palmer, published by Naval Institute Press, Maryland 1994. [/QUOTE]

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