The IRISH definition of diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. My father was once going into Britain, and being we have a Irish surname, he was pulled out of line and asked why he was coming to Britain by airport immigration. He said something like to visit friends, but was questioned further until finally he showed them his US passport and replied he was coming " to renew my disgust of the English" and thanked them for fullfilling his mission so quickly.

No political agenda here, and no slight of others intended- just a story in this non-diesel thread. I too, travelled the world as a "yacht skipper" and prefered gin and rum. Panama, Costa Rica, Palau and it's southwestern islands close to the equator, Yap, Guam, Saipan and the Northern Mariana Islands, Borneo, Singapore, Bali, Hawaii and the NW Hawaiian islands including Midway Atoll, the Marshall Islands including Bikini Atoll, and much of the Caribbean. Bottoms up!