For 50 years Rod Heikell has been living on and sailing boats around various bits of the world. In the process he has accumulated a little bundle of stories and often reflected on the places he has been to and on the people who live there. This collection of essays and semi-true stories are mostly new pieces although some have been published elsewhere and some are extracts from other books he has written. Some are semi-true to protect the guilty and the innocent and in one he has changed the location, but the bones of the stories are true.