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Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea. After eight days at sea, Bombard turned up at Casablanca, 200 miles south of Tangier on the African coast. From Casablanca he sailed to the Canaries. Leaving L'Heretique at Las Palmas, he flew to Paris to see his wife and their newborn daughter. At last, in October, he hoisted his small, triangular sail, set out again from Las Palmas on the long voyage across the Atlantic...
When asked whether he planned to sail back to his home, Davis answered, "I don't go tripping around the world at will, but there's a chance I'll return by sailing craft. The currents and winds would make the westward trip a joy ride...
Davis was the first man ever to sail eastward across the South Pacific during the winter. He made the voyage in a 48-foot ketch with a crew of two, his wife, and two sons. On November 2nd, after five months of sailing, his boat arrived in Cambridge...
Some interstellar space men have a more ingenious answer than this Noah's Ark method. If a space ship moves at nearly the speed of light, its time slows down. It can sail like a cosmic ray for thousands of earth-years from star to star, but for its crew only weeks will pass. When they return to earth, however, they will all be Rip Van Winkles: their friends and families will long since have passed into ancient history...
...thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss Coutts, to Australia or some other country and into the arms of a pioneer husband...