Ben Miller, who restores boats in Texas, readied the boat for its latest auction and took her out for a quick test sail.
Studies of these artifacts show that Viking ships were, as an exhibit label reads, "quick under sail and nimble when rowed".
Reyes's first throw, after a distinctively quick pivot, sailed over the head of John Stearns, a minor league manager serving as the first baseman.
Generally steamships could be loaded and unloaded far quicker than sailing ships, and in a cruel twist of irony, the dockside warehouses that had once made the Albert Dock so attractive, were now hindering its future development.
But she has also managed to leave us understanding why some of the sailors who did make it back to the comparative safety of land are, despite their ordeals, so quick to set sail again.
This is where the merging of real and fantasy works – in a cutesy spin on frat comedy that allows age-appropriate riffing on the Hollywood version of university life, even if the majority of these quick laughs will sail over younger viewers's heads.
Often, that's a quick 70-mile sail up the Turkish coast to the shopping mecca of Bodrum and the probable location of yet another missing Wonder of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
After a quick turnaround, American sailed for Bordeaux again on 5 August and had arrived back at New York on 6 September.
Mr. van Zyl, whose Afrikaans surname is pronounced "fun sail," is quick-minded and driven.
Next morning, we met our tour group: Noel, an Australian with a quick smile and no previous travel experience, who was embarking on a yearlong trip around the world; Bob, a broad-shouldered Mormon in a sailing T-shirt, who resembled "Mr. Clean"; Paula and Dan, a wealthy couple from Southern California.
