I figured you were a sailor, from your earlier books.
Oh yeah, big time. Been through the canal 3 times on sailboats, twice on my own. Longest solo passage 43 days, longest with crew 60 days. That reminds me: Survivors screwed up that sailing chapter so bad it was funny. For example, Rawles confused sheets with sails. I guess to a landlubber, sheets sounds like a nickname for sails. They are actually the ropes that control sails. That was a big eye-roller when I glommed onto the fact that Rawles just didn’t know, and worse, didn’t bother to have a sailor even read the stuff to check it.
You might want to take a look at his FR page.