ALL AT SEA – Advertisement – Since I grew up aboard, it was always a given that someday I’d circumnavigate—but there was ‘many a slip between the cup and lip’ as they say. My first boat rotted faster than I could wood-butcher new planks and frames into her. It took me a while to build a new 36-foot ketch from scratch with empty pockets. Thus, I was in my mid-twenties in the late ‘70s before heading down to the Lesser Antilles for a brief shakedown cruise before shoving off on my first circ. Luckily, in the Bahamas I met a cowboy bullrider from Texas named