I am not the most experienced sailor, but I do all right. Sometimes I even get full of myself. It's easy to do that on land.

Making a crossing alone across the North Pacific, from Osaka, his ultimate goal, taught me that how little I really know about the sea. Others have said this, but out there for weeks, sometimes drifting, sometimes not, you think of things that could happen that you would not be prepared to handle. Humbling.