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...