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Article: Sailing Panama & San Blas Isles: exploring a remote archipelago on a tall ship from Windjammer Barefoot Cruises.
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- Cruise Travel
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- July 1, 2004
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"You're a Newbie!"
"A Virgin!"
The pair of passengers grilling me at the welcome aboard get-together had already been dipping into the free 151-proof rum. Yes, this was my first sailing with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. No, I did not know the difference between a jib and jigger, a mizzen and a swizzle. I did, however, have the uncomfortable feeling that I might be keel-hauled or suffer some other frat-housestyle initiation rite. But no. I was merely thrust a drink and thumped on the back. "You're gonna love it!"
I was one of the few Newbies, too; most of my fellow 67 passengers on the SV (sailing vessel) Mandalay were veterans of at least two ...