Sail

Their main mast is splintered.

Sail's down.

Let's hope we're not going home on that.

I want to retire soon.

It's downtime.

Typically speaking, they will always happen whenever we take a short or a long rest.

Sailing will pretty much always counts to at least one long rest.

We're on a boat.

And in general, it'll probably end up being two downtime actions because that's what the book says.

I shared this video on my Ship Report Facebook page if you'd like to see it.

But if you're interested and you're just not on Facebook, you can go to YouTube and search for Kraken, K-R-A-K-E-N, sails, S-A-I-L-S, and you'll find their channel.

According to his team, the first big hurdle is, of course, Cape Horn, the southern end of South America, which is a deservedly notorious place for vessels, and many have been lost there.

People who have sailed this part of the world have either called it a hellish place to be in bad weather, or alternatively, it's nicknamed the Drake Lake for that area at the bottom of South America in the ocean called Drake's Passage, which when there are no storms can actually be as placid as a lake.

[laughs]

But the m- the more I dug into it, you realize that shipwrecks were, were pretty common, especially, uh, in the Day of Sail.

I mean, I, I, I read one statistic back in, like, the 17, 1800s, one out of every six ships that sailed from Britain didn't reach its designation, which, which is, which is kinda crazy.

Uh, I mean, uh, if you had a, a one in six chance of, you know, crashing in, in a airliner today, uh, you're probably not getting on that plane.

And he didn't expect his uncle to, uh, to give him permission, but his uncle did.

And so, uh, at age 13, yeah, he, he went to, uh, Liverpool, which was kind of the mecca of, of, uh, British shipping at the time.

And he, he hit Liverpool right around this huge conversion between the Days of Sail and the Days of Steam.

You know, it was-

Um, I wonder if John Paisel, if John, John being a sale adventuring helps or hurts biz, the sales biz versus on the WSL.

John, or I'm sorry, John John Florence Sailing, S-A-I-L.

Yes.

Hurts the sales business.

There's the boat sail.

That one I get.

S-A-I-L.

Yep.

S-E-L-L.

And S-A-L-E, isn't it? S-A-I-L.

S-A-I-L. That's what I said.

That's just the first one.

Children dear, was it yesterday We heard the sweet bells over the bay In the caverns where we lay? Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell.

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream; Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture ground; Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail, and bask in the brine; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail with unshut eye, Round the world forever and a.

When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, was it yesterday? Call yet once that she went away.

Once she sate with you and me On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, And the youngest sate on her knee.