Keep our service men and women in your thoughts and prayers this Christmas. They do so much for us in many unseen ways.
While sailing alone around the world in 1895 Joshua Slocum enters into his ships log: "Christmas of 1895 found the "Spray" refitted even to a wonderful makeshift stove which was contrived from a large iron drum of some sort punched full of holes to give it draft; the pipe reached through the top of the forecastle".
I'm guessing, Slocum would have stayed with good old wood burning heat if he sailed today's "high latitudes".
