We were not afraid to die What was the mission of the family
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uestion 1.
I honing our seafaring skills
Answer:
It refers to the efforts made by the narrator and his wife to perfect or sharpen their knowledge of navigation, handling of the boat and equipment and other sea skills.
Question 2.
ominous silence
Answer:
It refers to the silence just before an impending danger. The peace and quiet suggests that something bad is going to happen.
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The captain and his wife Mary had been dreaming for long of sailing around the world. They wanted to duplicate the voyage of Captain James Cook undertaken 200 years ago. The narrator/captain was a 37-year-old businessman. For 16 years they spent all their time learning the skills of navigation.
They built a boat, Wavewalker, which was 23 metres long and 30 ton in weight. It had a wooden lower part. But it was fitted out well and tested in the roughest weather. He carried spare pumps to meet any disaster. He knew that the Southern Indian Ocean was one of the world’s roughest seas. With foresight, he hired two crewmen to help him conquer the roughest seas in the world, the Southern Indian Ocean before he left Cape Town to go eastward. Such precautions helped the voyagers survive the disaster.