Thanks for the heads-up re: Al's wife, gnu. I had stopped checking that thread.

On board ship, it seems, when one turns through a full 360 degrees, all manner of weather and seas - the gamut from sunny and blue and fair, to sweltering doldrums, to choppy white caps and dangerous shoals, to raging storms.

Life. Eh? Glad to have all of you with whom to share the journey.