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Glee & Fred & Judy & Bryan
Bryan and Glee Butson from Australia are friends of ours since we sailed together with them in the Louisaides in 2003
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What we liked about Bryan and Glee was that they got really involved with the people living the the places they visited, they sail Second Winds hard, and they seem to be unflappable in the face of the kinds of cruising problems which daunt most people.
I wrote a few words about Bryan in 2003 (look down in the story here ) but I never mentioned the contribution Glee has made to the Islands of Papua New Guinea where she has become the defacto health officer when ever she visits. And while I have told many friends the story I never wrote about the dark and windy night when Glee held a severely injured young girl in her arms as one of the local men ferried them across several miles of rough ocean in a small, open, outboard powered skiff. Going out blind in a small boat without lights and bouncing 10 miles in the rough seas during the night was not a trip that anyone else would have volunteered for, even the families of the girl declined to go, but Glee shamed the men into taking her and the child to Misima to the hospital. Once arriving in Misima she had to virtually force the medical people there to attempt the dangerous operatation on the girl, action that certainly saved the girl's life. (The girl had run through the village fish shack and got caught by the throat on a large, open, barbed shark fishing hook. The hook went in one side of her neck and out the other, missing by millimeters her jugular, but because of the barb, it could not be removed without a surgical team.)
The people of the village were already resigned to the girl's death when Glee intervened. The girl was saved. Glee is a hero.
Glee & Fred & Judy & BryanBryan and Glee Butson from Australia are friends of ours since we sailed together with them in the Louisaides in 2003
Second WindsWhat we liked about Bryan and Glee was that they got really involved with the people living the the places they visited, they sail Second Winds hard, and they seem to be unflappable in the face of the kinds of cruising problems which daunt most people.
I wrote a few words about Bryan in 2003 (look down in the story here ) but I never mentioned the contribution Glee has made to the Islands of Papua New Guinea where she has become the defacto health officer when ever she visits. And while I have told many friends the story I never wrote about the dark and windy night when Glee held a severely injured young girl in her arms as one of the local men ferried them across several miles of rough ocean in a small, open, outboard powered skiff. Going out blind in a small boat without lights and bouncing 10 miles in the rough seas during the night was not a trip that anyone else would have volunteered for, even the families of the girl declined to go, but Glee shamed the men into taking her and the child to Misima to the hospital. Once arriving in Misima she had to virtually force the medical people there to attempt the dangerous operatation on the girl, action that certainly saved the girl's life. (The girl had run through the village fish shack and got caught by the throat on a large, open, barbed shark fishing hook. The hook went in one side of her neck and out the other, missing by millimeters her jugular, but because of the barb, it could not be removed without a surgical team.)
The people of the village were already resigned to the girl's death when Glee intervened. The girl was saved. Glee is a hero.
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