Life can be strange, challenging, often difficult, a life of unknowns.

Aged thirty-one, often unable to walk more than a few metres, I was medically discharged from the British Merchant Navy. I became a househusband. Years later I overcame my disability and set off to live my dream – a dream to sail around our world. Among many things that happened to me on my voyages where…

“More people have climbed Mount Everest than have sailed around the world, and most of those have been professionals.”

On the far side of the world I was struck by a mystery illness on the far side of the world forcing me into a 67-day, nonstop (single handed) passage from Australia, through ‘pirate alley’ (Gulf of Aden) to Yemen.

38,200.96 nautical miles later I returned home, a circumnavigation.

With these and many more, I have enough stories for a lifetime to recall… This is my journal.