On Sailboats - The safety of knowing what’s ahead

Judith Sleavin had just finished the routine log entries of her watch and was about to return to the cockpit of Melinda Lee. The stout Compass 47 cutter was part of a flotilla of cruisers en route from Nuku’alofa, Tonga, to New Zealand, a 1,000-mile passage. It was about 2 a.m. on a stormy night with restricted visibility and intermittent rain.

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