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17. Wow ... what a badass this dude is ...

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 02:41 PM

Feb 2014

I would die ... no question about it.

What was the nature of the boat, I wonder? 24 feet is pretty good size, that could mean it was a proper sailboat with a cabin and all that. I just really can't even imagine how someone could made it that long w/o a cabin to take shelter in ... if this thing was just an open-bottom boat like a rowboat, then one really big rain storm could fill your boat w/water and sink you I would think. Not to mention the exposure to the elements all day and all night.

To survive it even with a cabin for shelter would be superhuman, but to survive it w/no cabin at all would border on supernatural.

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