Sailorgirl has been going for 2 years now!!!

Hey, wasn't that a great deal on bananas on that last provisioning run? I When they're that cheap of course it was smart to buy the whole stem. So now, 3 days later you've got 60 bananas that look like a science experiment and a crew that might mutiny if you give them another banana to snack on.

How to disguise bananas and use them up. Recipes.

Ever wonder where bananas came from? Wonder no more. Read the Sailorgirl banana history.

Sailorgirl Attitude:

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

OK, so Seneca said it first.

For Toby on Smile & Wave, an update to the Photo Gallery.

Creatures I have met while underwater...

Another Sailorgirl Adventure!

sometimes it can't be measured in dollars

In the news....

- a brief history

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Louis Vuitton Cup and the America's Cup

current standings and the schedule

Given the banana tree's looks and size, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a kind of palm tree, but in fact it's a perennial herb, its trunk formed from the overlapping bases of old leaves. The fruit grows in "hands" with 10 to 20 "fingers" (the actual bananas) clustering into a bunch that can sometimes tip the scale at 100 lbs or more.

This Sailorgirl would like to send special birthday wishes to Mary Helen Tewes who's busy sailing the Solent on her 26 foot gaff-rigged cutter - the Mary Helen. January 10 is her 91st birthday. In December 2000 Helen and her son Donald completed an Atlantic crossing from England to the West Indies. They cruised the Caribbean and the Bahamas then recrossed back back to England in July 2001.