Another post concerned an 86 yr old wanting to sail over the horizon
but it had gotten too long, so...........
I was once forced to spend a few days at the harbor of Dog Island in N.
FL cuz it was just too nasty to go the three miles back to the
mainland. While hanging out on the dock, a very frail old lady with a
walker slowly made her way down the dock and into an open 19' sailboat
carefully stowing her walker. Finally, a younger woman came along and
told me that her granny insisted on going into town for her checkup in
spite of the weather. I expressed reservations about this but she
seemed to be a knowledgable sailor. The next day they came back and
when they got back on the dock I asked how it had been, the old woman
shook her head and said "I kept telling her to take the waves on the
quarter, but she wouldnt listen" Clearly, she knew what she was doing.