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Shipwrecked

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The Gulf of Pain

They thought they'd gone far enough west to clear the Chilean coast, but they miscalculated and were too close to shore. One of the junior officers, Petty Officer, who was climbed the mast to fix one of the sails, looks out and he sees they are barreling toward land. So what do you do if you've got a gigantic ship barreling towards? I mean, it's not like you can put the motor in reverse. And certainly that, this isn't like modern sailboats. These sailboats to turn around took as long as an hour.

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