Sailing is sport worth trying. After you have been at sea, sailing towards an unkown destination for a couple of months or even years such as in the cases of Captain Cook or Magellan, you know it's not such a small world after all. How long did it take to sail from New York to San Fransisco, not all that long ago? Around Cape Horn ? Boo yeah, that be character building! Stalled in the Sargasso, nothing but you , a hundred million eels and the sun hammering down on the sheet of iron, anvil like ocean. Yopiks! Even voyages undertaken for a few laughs can turn precarious. A trip across the Hudson can have an uncertain outcome for the unprepared.
Want to be a sailor? Of course you do, but be warned. During the last round the world clipper ship race in nineteen thirty something, ten ships set sail from the Faroe islands . Five were lost with all hands. Three others foundered off the coast of Africa. Only one actually completed the journey losing more than a few of it's crew to disease and accident. They won that race.
Tough sport, not for everyone.
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