Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Yo.

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Yo.

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

Because they pay me well to do it.....

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west?

West.

Why?

Because there's bugger-all east of me except a lot of windy cold water.

But your question is too simplistic. I could go east, then north. I
could go north, then west. Or I could just go east, which would be the
shortest & fastest way. Depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it
was just bragging rights, I'd go east. If I had heaps of time, I'd go
north then west through Torres Strait.

Cornell's Ocean Passages of the World has been the subject of many
discussions & arguments while we've been at sea.

PDW