I can no longer make changes to the main site, www.inthepresentsea.com, which is now frozen in time, as I will be myself soon enough. Anything more will be added here. The contact at the main site has become unreliable, so I have created a new email address and can be reached at webbchiles@yahoo.com. The Yellowbrick tracking page for GANNET when I am at sea is: https://my.yb.tl/gannet
Friday, June 21, 2019
Evanston: more on Capt. Holmes
I thank Chris for finding a snippet in the NEW YORK TRIBUNE on October 14, 1900, that a Captain Charles Holmes had been charged in Cleveland with manslaughter when the yacht IDLER, of which he was captain, foundered in a squall off that city on July 7. The two owners and five other members of their family drowned. Assuming it was the same Charles Holmes, as seems likely, he was still on the Great Lakes.. Many voyages talked about are never sailed.