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Having been many times forewarned about the infamous “Pamperos,” we were determined to avoid one of those erratic, raging evening storms, and yet here we were tossing around violently like a cork on a wild sea of foam in 50 knots of wind. I really wondered if we were going to survive. This wasn’t part of the dream scenario we had sketched out for our vagabond tropical life aboard our floating home, especially with two small children, but here we were off the coast of Uruguay. Then, to my dismay, a penguin passed us in the water below, swimming gaily in this tempest. Where in the world were we? It suddenly hit me that we really were in the Southern Hemisphere, not far from the roaring 40s, in some of the most notorious sailing grounds reputed for some of the most violent storms and seas in the world. —Excerpt from Janis Couvreux's Cowabunga: Four Souls and an Escargot

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