I never do make the land-sailing: on the day, rain stops play.
I decide on land-sailing for Sunday; it is, the brochure assures me, like all of the "x-treme!" activities on offer here, tailored to vacationing novices.
In 1935, she had a new catapult and landing sail system to operate her Arado seaplanes on heavy seas installed.
Our recent visit was planned, and our log entries still described the Tides as the perfect place to land after sailing the rough seas.
Arriving in this rocky cove on Friday, Icelandic-speaking men with sun-creased faces and unkempt hair strode to this unfamiliar shore, their first time on dry land since sailing south from Greenland.
The lands are sailing past him.
For some the German advance cut off their escape route by land; they sailed away from the small port of Makkum, taking the last remaining vessels on the eastern side of Lake IJssel.
The Titanic had sunk far from land, three days' sailing from New York, out of sight.
Embarking on a boat in Jiddah, he sailed with a retinue of followers down both shores of the Red Sea to Yemen, crossed it by land, and set sail again from Aden.
