Our tactics are just to keep out of trouble, avoid protest situations, sail the boat well and keep out of the corners. We?re going fast, we have a good crew and we?re just going to try and build on our points lead.

Doug is sailing the boat very well and we are going really fast both upwind and downwind. I give a lot of credit to Don Kelly, the boat captain. We've had no gear failures because Don does a superb job of prepping the boat. He makes my job a lot easier.

We are just playing together and we expect to put ourselves in situations to win at the end of the game. We have confidence that we can beat anybody down the stretch.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.