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No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing

One of the great things about Jerome Rand’s book, Sailing into Oblivion: The Solo Non-Stop Voyage of the Mighty Sparrow, is the way he describes the emotional side of sailing his Westsail 32, Mighty Sparrow, around the world, as opposed to just providing a narrative of the storms and physical challenges he faced. In the following excerpt, for example, he describes

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