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...Come Out of This." Thorpe tried his hand at golf (low 80s), bowling (over 200), was proficient at hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle shooting, squash, handball and horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after...
...hurricane off Rapa. The French government announced that it would take one-half of any salvage from the Miru, and the island's natives would get the other half. That, he said, was why everyone was going to the beach; wreckage was sure to drift in soon. Arrow discreetly pointed toward a white-hulled yacht with a New Zealand flag flying from the stern, and suggested that the Miru hadn't broken up yet. Somewhat downcast, the native called his fellows back. Later the island meterologist informed Davis that several ships, some larger than the Miru had been lost...
...Miru headed for Callao, Peru, 4,250 miles away. It was now mid-July--the south Pacific's January. The average temperature was around 35 degrees. About half way across, Davis rationed food for the adults because supplies were slowly diminishing. Their situation become desperate. Davis, Donovan, and Arrow found that there was not enough energy in rationed food to keep them going. Apathy and lassitude...
...Arrow kept what he called a "morale chart" on the trip across. The graph plunged deepest during this period. In desperation, they decided to spear some of the naively happy purpoises that lounged alongside. Arrow spent an afternoon fashioning a spear, and when finished, looked over the side for a purpoise. He discovered that they had gone; the crew never saw another purpoise for the rest of the trip...
Just off the Peruvian coastline, they were foodless, save for some beef. "I've sailed before, so the hurricane didn't worry me," says Arrow, "but I've never been really hungry. I was quite frightened." To make things worse a cloud layer, hovering off the Peruvian coast, put visibility at just about zero. Davis couldn't solve the food problem, but, being a competent navigator, he was not seriously handicapped by the lack of visibility. About 100 miles out, the engine sputtered; Davis investigated, and found that there was no diesel oil left. To op-operate the engine...