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Hello Gisela, > yes I hace received the wonderful photo from you. But yesterday I write this > to you. You donīt become my e-mail? You mention above that you wrote yesterday , but unfortunately your e-mail did not arrive here until now . Sorry ... :-( Below is a historical fact from the US navy ( I found very funny ) : -- Naval History - Wooden Ships and Iron Men The following is from a tale related by the chief curator of the National Park Service, and printed in no less an authoritative source than Oceanographic Ships, Fore and Aft, published by the Oceanographer of the Navy. It has to do with a cruise of the 204-foot frigate USS Constitution, commonly known as Old Ironsides , in 1779. We quote: "On 23 August 1779, the USS Constitution set sail from Boston loaded with 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of water, 74,000 cannon shot, 11,500 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum. Her mission: to destroy and harass English shipping. On 6 October, she made Jamaica, took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum. Three weeks later the Constitution reached the Azores, where she provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 6,300 gallons of Portuguese wine. On 18 November, the ship set sail for England where her crew captured and scuttled 12 English merchant vessels and took aboard their rum. But the Constitution had run out of shot. Nevertheless, she made her way unarmed up the Firth of Clyde for a night raid. Here her landing party captured a whiskey distillery, transferred 40,000 gallons aboard and headed for home. On 20 February 1780, the Constitution arrived in Boston with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no whiskey. Just 48,600 gallons of water." Detail analysis: Length of cruise - 181 days Booze consumption - 2.26 gallons per MAN per day (plus whatever they rescued from the 12 English merchant ships) Guestimated re-enlistment rate - 100% Probable EPA Award of Gold Certificate for water conservation. --- Cheers , +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+