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To: SmoothSail who wrote (187049)	11/18/2009 12:35:14 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 225578

I was young enough not to be influenced by the hardships they endured. A circumnavigation with no head would be hardship enough for me!

To: SmoothSail who wrote (187049)	11/18/2009 12:41:41 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I'm laughing a lil here cause "no head"... I'm picturing the headless sailor. it means tho... no headwind??? or? when you write the story... feel free to mess with our 'heads' but... to a non-sailor... "I sailed with no head"... maybe don't fill it in, cause the picture is making me laugh.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (187049)	11/18/2009 1:49:17 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

My cousin sailed to the South Pacific with her husband and two kids. They landed at some really primitive place in Fiji where she got deathly ill from an unknown cause. The people there had no doctor. Finally they managed to get her on a plane to Australia where she was diagnosed by a doctor who was one of only two or three doctors in the world who knew anything about this disease (some kind of meningitis, I think). The doctor treated her successfully. The kids sailed the boat from Fiji to Australia, where they picked up my cousin and her husband. Then they sailed back home. Then her husband got involved with somebody else, took the boat and sailed it down to Chile where he sold it and took the money. I only have the sketchiest details of this story, but it was quite an adventure.