"what is sailing, really, if not space travel across liquid terrain? You plot coordinates. You calculate weather. You sleep in shifts. You trust your vessel, and you go."
Nice to hear your Rover thoughts Teague. I'll have to add the Disco 2 to the real Rover list as only once did Defenders compète in a Camel Trophy. They were support vehicles for all the rest of the races. Starship, yes we can dream and imagine it. I'm flying single engine planes now and at 7000ft just under the clouds in a sunset it's pretty quiet and peaceful up there.
Looks like of the 20 Camel Trophy expeditions, "real" Land Rovers (my unqualified definition) were used as team vehicles in six and as support vehicles in sixteen. I only pick on non-Defender/Series Land Rovers because of aesthetics. No other Landy has the iconic look and feel and it's just not the same climbing into a Disco or Range Rover (though we all know the Range Rover is the most capable of them all). I miss my trucks: 1974 SIII 88, 1991 D90, 1994 NAS D90, 2008 D110, 1984 SIII 109, and 1989 Santana 2500. But I don't miss the maintenance...RIP.
"what is sailing, really, if not space travel across liquid terrain? You plot coordinates. You calculate weather. You sleep in shifts. You trust your vessel, and you go."
This is a pretty cool perspective.
That's why in my sci-fi books the starship is a starmaran, based more or less in the iconic Privilege boats of the late-90s.
Nice to hear your Rover thoughts Teague. I'll have to add the Disco 2 to the real Rover list as only once did Defenders compète in a Camel Trophy. They were support vehicles for all the rest of the races. Starship, yes we can dream and imagine it. I'm flying single engine planes now and at 7000ft just under the clouds in a sunset it's pretty quiet and peaceful up there.
What equipment are you on?
Looks like of the 20 Camel Trophy expeditions, "real" Land Rovers (my unqualified definition) were used as team vehicles in six and as support vehicles in sixteen. I only pick on non-Defender/Series Land Rovers because of aesthetics. No other Landy has the iconic look and feel and it's just not the same climbing into a Disco or Range Rover (though we all know the Range Rover is the most capable of them all). I miss my trucks: 1974 SIII 88, 1991 D90, 1994 NAS D90, 2008 D110, 1984 SIII 109, and 1989 Santana 2500. But I don't miss the maintenance...RIP.