Ship of Dreams - Paperback

by Charles T. Whipple (Author)

Pursuing a lifelong dream, I left my home in Japan and moved into a trailer house in New Zealand, ready to start building a 21-foot sailing vessel in which to circumnavigate the globe alone. This is the story of building that boat, named Resolution, and all the ways in which an amateur boatbuilder can go afoul of Murphy's Law-if anything can go wrong, it will. This is not a how-to book, though there is some detail of building Resolution. It's a story of pursuit. A story of soldiering on, as John Welsford put it, in pursuit of a dream. It's a story of how many small steps come together to result in something bigger and more robust than originally envisioned. I sailed away from Tauranga Bridge Marina, past the Mount at the mouth of Tauranga harbor, down the Coromandal Peninsula, past the Gulf of Hauraki, and on toward Fiji on the first leg of my planned circumnavigation. Early one morning in mid-June 2008, a rescue helicopter fished me off a large volcanic rock at Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. This book is about how that happened as well. And how fortune guided my footsteps, then and now. The story of Resolution. How she came to be and how she ceased to be. A ship of dreams.

Author Biography

The only thing I do well is write. Charles T. Whipple is an international award-winning copywriter, journalist, author and novelist. His awards include Editor & Publisher Magazine DM Award, World Annual Report Competition Award, 2010 Oaxaca International Literature Award, and 2011 Global eBook Award. Whipple was born in Show Low, Arizona. He spent two and a half years in Japan as a volunteer youth missionary, and majored in Japanese History as a graduate student and grantee at the East West Center, University of Hawaii. He is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, and has long been interested in the fantastic aspect of traditional Japanese tales. Whipple lives in the city of Chiba, the capital of Chiba Prefecture, which encompasses the ancient Kanto Kingdoms of Awa, Kazusa, and Shimosa. Today, Chiba hosts the Magic Kingdom of Disneyland and is gateway to Japan via the international airport in Narita. He has one wife, four daughters, two sons, and 19 grandchildren. Whipple writes western novels under the pen name of Chuck Tyrell and fantasy based on ancient Japanese history and mythology as Charles T. Whipple. Visit Charlie at his Blog: http: //chucktyrell-outlawjournal.blogspot.com/.