Hilton Head Island: Webb Chiles by the numbers

 

Steve Earley wrote most of this entry as well as took the above photo Tuesday evening while we were sipping drinks on the screened porch. 

Six years ago for reasons no longer of importance, Steve compiled a list of Webb Chiles by the numbers.  I did not know this until he recently mentioned it to me and then showed me the list.  I found it interesting and amusing and asked permission to share it with you, which Steve graciously granted.  I thank him.

I updated some numbers, such as my age and circumnavigations, and added a couple more, but it is Steve’s list from most to least.  

If you think of other numbers that ought to be included, please suggest them in a comment.

Webb Chiles by the numbers

1,000,000+ published words:  books, website, journal, magazine and newspaper articles, short stories, novella, poems

3,000 miles first leg of open boat voyage

1,500 gallons of water bailed every twenty-four hours from EGREGIOUS during the weeks before reaching New Zealand

82 years old

57 years since bought first boat

50 years since last worked for anyone else

30 years married to Carol

26 hours swimming and floating in the Gulf Stream after sinking RESURGAM

18 feet length of CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE 

16 days imprisoned in Saudi Arabia as a spy

15 times crossed the Equator

10 years alone at sea

10 words in most famous quote

8 boats owned

8 times in Force 12 wind

6 circumnavigations

6 times married

5 consecutive decades in which a circumnavigation has been completed

5 women married

4 boats whose mastheads have gone in the water

3 compasses on CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, two of which went into the inflatable after she pitch-poled.

3 five year plans.  

2 times adrift with survival in question.  

1 life