How sailing - at least according to one salty sailor - is like war

     This morning on the dock in Falmouth, Gary and I met Bob Burns.  Bob went around the world, single-handed, in his 36-ft. steel, junk-rigged schooner.  478 days at sea, logging 31,700 miles.  

     We did some small talk about the forecast, the weather and how the high pressure was moving in over the Bay of Biscay. Then I asked him about his travels. He said, "sailing is like war."  Of course I followed up and asked him what he meant.  He said, "well ten percent is pleasure, 75-percent is boredom, and fifteen percent is sheer terror."