Outlier

"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.

During the summer, in Charleston, you would expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing.

That day would be an outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Charleston are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Charleston might be freezing cold.

There are of course yachts who are outliers—vessels that, for one reason or another, are so extraordinary and so outside of the ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.