Sailing adventures
When I was in my twenties, just recently fallen in love with the ocean and hungry for sailing adventures, I started reading the biographies of many sailors. From the great discoverers like Magallanes, Marco Polo and Zheng He, modern sailing records lie Laura Dekker and even the random middle-age couple that decided to sell their house and sail around the world and write a horrible book about food recipes and the most boring Atlantic crossing I have ever read. In any case I devoured them all books, dreaming of a boat that I didn’t have and experience that would take me years to get. since I turned 23 and forsook my career in science and committed to become a better sailor and sailing instructor it has been a long and bumpy ride. Working as a sailing instructor in different places, carrying my books with me. I was in the fjords of the south island of New Zealand while reading the memories of Captain Cook, on the same bay where he was attacked by wild Maories, reading the same