On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:29:28 GMT, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:

How did old Joshua Slocum get all the way around the world without any of
these fancy things we yachtspeople
have today?

"...I studied with diligence Neptune's laws,
and these laws I tried to obey..." [Joshua Slocum]

Almost like poetry, but it was clipped from the middle
of a paragraph in his book. True, it isn't how he managed
without modern conveniences, but simply how he made it
around the oceans.
--Pete
Peter W. Meek
http://www.msen.com/~pwmeek/