"It was a horrendous hurricane. The boat was thrashing this way and that and we were fighting for our very lives. I looked at Jessie and yelled, 'this is no time to be eating a banana!' Then I noticed it was coming out of his forehead, not his mouth." grimaced Imana James.

Hurricane Velma hit in the Atlantic so quickly and with such force that all ships and boats in the area north of Bermuda were lost, except the James' and their 41' yellow ketch, "Nanu Nanu."

"Thought I was ambushed, just like my namesake," said Jessie James. "I felt this fruity felling between my eyes. Guess it's kinda like a straw going through a telephone pole in a tornado. I yanked it out. Lucky those things are slippery. Miraculously it didn't hit anything vital so I closed up the holes with duct tape and we rode out the rest of the storm. Guess it was my lucky day."