To offer you a topic in order to calm down a bit after all the political passage of arms, here's:

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en

The most famous round the world single-handed sail contest.

This time there is also a Dutch sailor in the fleet who is the eldest contestant (65).
He is multimillionair and pays everything out of his own pocket.

ronald
RAIDER-15 (homebuilt)

hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?..
"huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.