I woke up at the end of this past summer and thought, 'I've just completed my 50th year in sailing.' I'm 55 and started when I was six.

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

I always thought I was healthy, thought I was healthy as a horse, but the past five months I've been sick three times with the same upper respiratory infection.

Every sailor is doing something at every moment. There is no letup.

I've got to take the blame. I thought we were past that. It's good to feel good about yourself, but when the ball goes up, you've got to compete. You don't get W's from reading the press clippings.

In the past, it was thought that there was no difference between these two types of processing in the brain. We knew theoretically that there was a difference but nobody had been able to isolate one from the other [in the brain].