This is a hell of a place to complain about it. We are mostly low dollar boaters and things like making certain the wife and kids don't starve and the mortgage gets paid kind of get in the way of skylarking around on the seven seas. Today people bankroll their teenage kids on around the world voyages.

: 6 billion+ people in this world and yet so few that take these
: challenges on. Here in Wellington, New Zealand we have the velux
: round the world yacht racers in harbour (amazing boats btw). 4
: people - one brit, one american, one canadian and one pole.
: There's a poster on the waterfront saying that 2700 people have
: climbed everest, 500 have been in space but only 180 have sailed
: round the world. It almost seems that as the world population
: grows we're actually becoming safer and less adventurous.