Sailing prepares us for life’s surprises
ffshore sailing is grand practice for medical events. In chemotherapy, you spend an inordinate amount of time lying down (as if in a bunk, with a book, off-watch, listening to nurses banging around like deckhands). In hospital you stare at the counter on your drip-stand like a GPS plotter, to see how many hours it is DTW – since the waypoint means you will get to
