Rising at around 8am, we practised manoeuvres or sailed all day, mooring at 6 or 7pm, leaving plenty of time for eating the homemade meals provided and indulging in our sizeable pre-cruise booze run while listening to Kevin's picaresque life story.
Poised and well-prepared, Yellen sailed through the two-hour hearing.
Pleasure ships sailed from Marseille to watch the bombardment and the beach landings.
Most Australians don't know – or don't want to know – about the extent of the violence that accompanied European colonial settlement and that is still synonymous for black Australia with Australia Day. Thirty years after Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788, it was left to Macquarie to celebrate this special anniversary for British colonialism.
The story, also a page 7 lead, claimed that Louis Walsh's band had "sailed through auditions".
After living on the ice for two months, the crew sailed their lifeboats to the small and barren Elephant Island, before risking their lives navigating a further 800 nautical miles to the South Georgia whaling stations to find help.
A cousin of mine recently travelled from Somalia to Libya and then sailed across the Mediterranean just a few days after the sinking of a boat carrying migrants in which 365 people died.
PSG almost took the lead when the Monaco defender Fabinho mistimed a headed clearance following a PSG corner and the ball almost sailed into the opposite corner.
It was as if he sailed out to find something deeper than freeways and fast food.
"We sailed for five hours, but then the boat engine broke," he said.
It is reasonable to wonder what was in his mind as that last six sailed high over long-on.
