But these storms always blew out of the southeast, and they stayed out of the southeast.

So if you got a southeasterly, and they say it's going to blow 25 because the forecast are horrible up there, you know, you bet your boots is going to blow 50 or 60.

So you just beware of southeast release in that particular part of the world.

Now, the real drama was the fourth one, and the fourth one blew, I don't know, a good 70, 80 knots.

It was freaking incredible.

Ha ha, ha, ha, ha. I love that.

On the wind is presented by Weems and Plath, makers of fine nautical and weather instruments since 1928.

We had a watch guru on board East Bjorn for our most recent passage in the Caribbean.

Crew member Rob entertained us with stories of his watch repair business, called International Dial,

by the way, if you want to check it out, and educated us on the origins of accurate timekeeping in the U.S. In the 1800s, he told us, trains needed accurate time to avoid collisions,

and the Hamilton Clock Company launched their railway special pocket watch to accomplish that,

which was a major breakthrough back then. Time, of course, is critical to celestial navigation

and finding accurate longitude, and was the paramount scientific challenge

in the 1700s. And as recent as the last 40 years prior to GPS, clocks on board ships were

still hugely essential. A shipboard chronometer was, with the sextant, the most important

navigational tool on board. Even electronic digital clocks on the bridge of modern ships

contain complicated electronics to sync them with accurate GMT

and cost upwards of $10,000.

Commercial ships even had a special radio room clock

with colored indicators to show when the emergency radio frequencies

at sea needed to be silent.

So having onboard East Bjorn, the classic Weems and Plath Atlantis series eight-day wine mechanical clock,

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