Thanks Gord,
The problem is that I don't remember if those are the exact words he used so translating my poor recollection doesn't exactly answer the question. I've had this question up for a few days on this and the SSCA boards and nobody has anything solid to say about it, so I'm wondering if my circumnavigator friend was really correct. Perhaps he thought he had a magic phrase and was really just saying "Hi".
Anyway, I'm hoping that in the next few days I can either get the correct phrase or forget about it and spend my time day trading to try to raise enough to pay for Italian Marinas.
Thanks,
Richard Black
S.V. Saeta
Sailing Flamenco