Talk:Francis Chichester

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Hi, I put the second link away, because i think is not the good one. CaptainHaddock 15:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC) Added another link, and material about his flying career. USER:Winstonwolfe

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• While rectifying a few grammatical points (there may be some hypercorrection in there, sorry; one can revert it if necessary), I noticed the phrase "now considered to be a macrobiotic diet". Now, I was wondering whether this meant "now considered to have been a macrobiotic diet" or "now considered a macrobiotic diet" (I know that it is a pedantic point, but I thought that it was ambiguous; is it referring to the diet's having been a macrobiotic diet and that that has only recently been considered/discovered or is it referring to the fact that it is only considered macrobiotic in modern terminology? By the way, "consider" doesn't need to have "to be" with it, if one cannot see the point I am making).

--Steven Weston 20:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

The name of the author (Anita Leslie) of the Chichester biography and Chichester's name in the title citation are both misspelled. Just typos. I tried to edit, but can't seem to get onto that page. I just finished reading the book this morning. It's excellent. 24.86.132.252 00:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)Chuck Davis, September 2, 2007

Items from his Gipsy Moth vessels on www.gipsymothcollection.com Very Historic Tony december 4th 2008

Aviation observations

There's a video where Sir Chichester describes seeing a rather anomalous object while flying in 1931.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C2A2HEK5rU

Think it's worth adding to the article? Xtraeme (talk) 01:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

No as it does not appear to be particularly notable or relevant to Chichester. MilborneOne (talk) 08:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Seeing as how he spent several pages in his book The Lonely Sea and the Sky (around pp. 185) I'm not sure one can objectively state it isn't relevant or notable in as far as how Sir Chichester viewed his life. Especially seeing as how his observation precedes even some of the earliest unknown transient sightings; and that he was, furthermore, willing to go the extra mile to provide an on camera interview describing the event.

Perhaps, it's best to just include an external link to this small write-up `Aviation Pioneer, Sir Francis Chichester, Sights UFO?` Xtraeme (talk) 18:19, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Links to forums are not allowed refer WP:EL MilborneOne (talk) 18:29, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Family?

The article is confusing about his family: it refers to his wife-to-be Sheila in 1958, while the linked entry on his younger son gives the son a birthdate of 1946. Were the children Sheila Chichester's, and if so, were they married before 1958? Or was he previously married to someone else, and Sheila Chichester his children's stepmother?Filigree11 (talk) 16:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

According to ODNB he married Muriel Eileen Blakiston in 1923 and they had two sons, one stillborn and a second George who died in 1967. The marriage broke up after a few years and Muriel died in 1929. In 1937 he married Sheila Mary Craven and they had one son Giles. MilborneOne (talk) 19:57, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

The "off course navigation" (by Chichester named "Find the Island" is not " as old as navigation " : the method by one line approach was first applied by Capt.Thomas Sumner in the winter of 1837 when sailing from St.Christoffer Nevis to Greenock . In fog in the Irish Sea he succeeded to take one sight on the sun and when sailing along the reduced position line , a light vessel registered in the chart actually ran in sight after some time . 80.56.50.56 (talk) 18:41, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Katsuura

Hey there, I'm not keen to edit this as there's conflicting information, but the article has Chichester crashing in Katsuura, Chiba. Encyclopedia Britannica article here [1] states that it's Katsuura Harbor in Wakayama - fair distance away. The latter gibes better with his description in his bio and also is 10 miles from Shingu where he was taken to hospital (there's no Shingu in Chiba that I can see). The map in the same bio has the Katsuura in Chiba - one must be right, but which one? --118.209.47.44 (talk) 22:21, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

No idea about the geography of Japan but Flight says "he was proceeding from Katsuxra to Tokio on August 15; when he met with a nasty accident. He had experienced some difficulty in getting the "Moth" seaplane of the water, and had just succeeded at the third attempt, when the machine caught a telegraph wire while crossing the village and crashed into the sea wall." MilborneOne (talk) 20:03, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

The London Times on 17 Auguist 1931 has a similar tale but spells the location as Katsuura and mentions he was taken to hospital in Shingu. MilborneOne (talk) 20:06, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Gipsy Moth V

My recollection is that Chichester, weakened by cancer, had to abandon Gipsy Moth V and was rescued by a ship. Wikiain (talk) 19:49, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Other sources and book stated chichester did not beat the clipper ships record around the world many sources

HorseDurbin (talk) 14:24, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

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"First" at what?

What precisely did Chichester do "first"? I had thought he was the first solo circumnavigator, since seeing him come in at Plymouth in 1967 - until someone added Vito Dumas here. Now I find that Chichester himself mentions Dumas, Nance, Slocum and O'Brien: Along the Clipper Way, pp 69-70. Wikiain (talk) 20:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Television

When Chichester appeared on television in 1967, he had difficulty speaking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.38.71 (talk) 15:10, 10 January 2020 (UTC)