chapter one

    Did you hear about the 
    budgie with no teeth?
    No.
    He was bound to suck seed. 
                Australian Dad Joke. 

Most tales of circumnavigation begin with the overhaul of the boat. Whether by agents ot a loaded retiree or refugee from finance & marketing, or some down & out young couple, there's some whining about costs & delays, before they head off. 
What beats me is how they have the gumption or advanced knowledge, to announce a desire to circumnavigate. How does anyone know that? The boat could be driven onto the rocks at the next port, you could sail into a lovely harbour & never leave, or get cancer. You could just shit yourself & never go to sea again, or be totally crap at navigation, avoiding weather or just a hopeless at sailing over any duration. How does anyone know in advance that they're going to blithely forge ahead over 40 000 sea miles, avoiding collision, scurvy or waning interest, to return to home port in three years? 
In the majority of these tales, they have friends & relatives, workmates or even community dignatories in some gala parade waving the off a departure. I mean people even  cry at these events! How does that happen? I'd be too conscious of the possibility of failing to live up toy own pronouncents. 
If I go, & I soon hope to, it will be quietly, at some odd hour on a boat that runs with a "To Do List" taped on the main bulkhead. No one ashore will know, because I would be heartily embarrassed by any potential fanfare & cringe at the pressure generated to suceed. 
  
  

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