Actually, it's even funnier when you do the math properly. "6 days at sea", counting the day they left as one, is only about 120 hours. And the distance they would have to have "drifted" is about 3000 nautical miles, not my conservative estimate of 1500 miles.

So their "drift rate" would have been about 25 knots - 8 knots faster than the famed china clipper Cutty Sark's top speed of 17 knots.

That's one HECK of a 12-foot sailboat <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />