Turns out: if you dont care about sailing and you have no association or interest to the task of rounding the world. This book will be a slog. I got this book basically for free and felt it worth giving it a shot. But it was very clear early on that i would not enjoy this story. The book is old and reads like a n arthur conan doyle novel without story. It is basically a diary of this gentlemen who sailed the seas with his boat the Spray.