Boat From Hell
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Every so often in nature, a combination of events take place that combine to create an overall event that is much greater than it’s parts. In the ocean, rogue waves occasionally appear; in weather, fronts combine to create a weather system that defies belief; and in grocery stores you always pick the wrong check out line. I believe this principle also applies to cruising yachts.
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As is our custom
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One would think that the sailing gods had finished their business with us and would leave us humbly heading for home. I wish that were true.
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There is something special about being under sail, particularly when you know that sail is all you have. You know you will have to rely on your wits and your sailing skill to get yourself out of trouble. All through the trip, we had relied on the wisdom of Donald Street in his Cruising Guide to the Eastern Caribbean. Don was well known for doing all his cruising under sail alone, and his sailing instructions often included the best way to approach harbors with no engine power. We discovered later Don was also well known in the Grenadines for being a self-centered blow-hard who the locals found hard to believe, particularly when he described how to approach tiny harbors under sail.