Inspired the making of the film 'I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1968)'. From 1962 to 1970 Lee Quinn roamed the world in two different boats named Neophyte and always sailed with all-girl crews. In all a total of 105 women from 18 different countries joined him and together they attracted major publicity wherever they went. There was a constant string of newspaper articles, Lee gave many profitable lectures, and eventually the "all-girl" sailing schtick made it into the movies.
On October 11, 1970, Quinn and and four women, two of them Japanese, departed Aburatsubo, Japan, and headed back for San Francisco on a 48-foot cutter named Neophyte Too. They were never seen nor heard from again.
Writer, steeplejack and yachtsman, who was lost at sea during a typhoon in the Pacific.