A Voyage For Madmen (43 page)

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A year and a half after this voyage, Knox-Johnson was hospitalised for appendicitis. There was scar tissue on the removed appendix – he had, indeed, suffered from appendicitis at sea, and had been very lucky that it had healed by itself.

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I'm happy to report that
Suhaili
was only on loan to the museum. She is now – March 2002 – back in Falmouth, where Knox-Johnson is having her re-caulked and made ready for sea again.