I guess, considering my bloodline and my early childhood experiences with boats, water craft of all kinds were always going to play an important role in my life.

My maternal grandfather ran away to sea at the age of 14 and walked back into the family home unannounced on Christmas Day seven years later. He eventually became captain of a Union Steamship Company steamer at the tender age of 27 until 15 years later in 1929 his ship was wrecked on the Catlins coast of the South Island.

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