[nunya bidness]

That's one hell of a daysail.

[Travis McGee]

He beat me by a month and a half. (About 70 days Guam to San Diego, with crew.) But I was not technically adrift, while making a very slow transit of the north Pacific, although at times I had my doubts. (This was during a "La Nina" reverse El Nino, when the dead calm zone extended across the trade wind bands all the way north to Alaska.)

Actually, the military should hire this guy to talk at some survival school for a while, mostly about keeping the spirits and will to live up. I took 43 days to go solo from Panama to Hawaii (Great El Nino, trade winds gone again, I got it both ways!) and you can get VERY bummed out, and that's on a boat making progress with radios, CDs, books, good food etc.

How this guy kept himself from "going for a swim" during a low point is the real story of this epic to me. He must have had a great source of inner strength, or maybe he "just wouldn't let the sea beat him".

Any way, I salute one tough old SOB.