Watched a vid on YouTube about the last grain racers of the 20s and 30s.Just a spinnaker. Crappy photo but you can see the roller furled jib. No mainsail up. Nice slow day.
I met a guy in Tahiti that had sailed across the pacific from the west coast. We were hanging out on his boat in Tahiti, and he said he spent three days getting back from Morea to Tahiti when his diesel quit on him and there was no wind ( it's about 12 miles). I said weren't you pissed? He said "I didn't have to be anywhere".
Those big arks went from wind at the Capes that would threaten all sails to decking out their ships with as much sheet as they could to try and catch the slightest puff of air in the horse latitudes.
There was absolutely no talk of DEI on those boats. They were all equal, equally overworked.
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