Word: mizzenmast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of the risks to others if I passed out, which seemed probable." Those risks taken by his rescuers were really unnecessary, Sir Francis intimated. "Although I shall always be grateful for the kindness and skill of the help I received from the Royal Navy in removing the damaged mizzenmast and sailing back, I still believe I would have made it alone." Yet Sir Francis will probably follow doctors' orders and not go sailing alone again for at least a year. A singlehanded voyage before then, wrote the Old Man of the Sea, would likely end "in a spinnaker...