Overview

The fascinating survival story of an abandoned then battered child whose parents retrenched on two continents, alternately consider him a pawn or a token for their personal vengeance and problems. As a survivor of battered child syndrome he discovers within the gulf of the continental separation lays an ocean and a passion for the sea, a communion that heals and replenishes him. The young then middle age adult remains prey to the parental uses and abuses until his late discovered soul mate helps free him from this bondage, free to rebuild his life. As the middle aged adult communes one last time with the sea, traumatic events linked to a final betrayal of trust open the floodgate of long repressed emotional pain and baggage.

The extraordinary course of an unaccomplished dream

By Seanseamour

PART ONE  Birth of a Dream

Chapter 1  Returning to the Genesis 

• Aunt Minnie’ Foster Home
• Living with a Father and Mother
• Roosevelt Hospital – protected by coma
• Freedom to Be in Paradise
• The Sea
• My First Boat
• Back to School – learning  French at Le Couvent
• Catherine becomes Maman
• My First Atlantic Crossing
• The Battered Child Returns for More, for the Farm
• The Young Adult Returns One Last Time

Chapter 2   Back to the Water

• Wanting my Dove – building my dream
• Preparing my Cocoon
• Cutting the Umbilical Chord

Chapter 3  The Journey

• Hanging Off the Bow
• Utter Despair – last message in the bottle
• Pull the EPIRB?
• A Human Voice in the Storm
• Freeing the Dove to Fly Again
• Empowered Again
• My Mid-Atlantic Pond
• Horta, At Last

Chapter 4   Sharing the Journey with Brian

• My Lost Child
• The Near Miss
• Laughing Pains and a Lesson

PART TWO  Uncharted Courses

Chapter 5   Return to the Auberge

• Domus
• Always Back to the Chesapeake
• My Other Construct Gone Awry

Chapter 6  Freedom mortgaged by sobering realities

• Family Magnet
• Another Foreclosure in the Wait
• Matriarchal Glue
• Duty Bound, Adolescent Recaptured

Chapter 7   Trolling for Crew lands my Soul-Mate

• Loneliness Hurts Less Alone
• Not Alone Living a Predicament
• Sharing my Passion – Corsica at Last
• Dramatic Arrival in Port Cros

Chapter 8  Building our future

• Taking “Relationships 101”
• Mayke Builds her Web
• Sean Seamour the First
• José and the Menorca, Happy Past and Present
• Seanee the Second, Fielding the Dream

Chapter 9   Freedom in Perspective, Winter of Discontent

• Freedom Comes Into Perspective
• Setbacks, Deceits and Betrayals
• Back to the Building Blocks of the institute with no Fireboat

Chapter 10  Committing my Dream Away

• The French Mother Revealed – Again
• My Soul Mate Humanizes the Building Blocks

Chapter 11   Sailing on Land in Revolt

• Failed Escape
• Sharing Memories Past with Mayke

Chapter 12   The Long Journey Back

• Mending Fences Fails – The End of my Relationship with Marie
• Continuing the Dream – Backtracking to CONUS
• Cap Verde, course interruption in magical islands
• Always Ready for… this Time Stopping the TGV
• Returning to our Rehabilitated Village Wart
• Back to Home Waters – Tampa andthe Gulf
• Loosing Queen Mum
• Oriental – over the bridge a Dream Come True

Chapter 13   Disaster Awaits

• Betrayals and Setbacks Again
• 2004 – 2005 : Hell or Purgatory
• Loosing Oriental, Loosing Hope
• It’s For Real – freedom in perspective

Chapter 14   Homeless at last

• Where do We Go Now – throwing darts at the world map
• The Dental Apointment – Mayke says call,  People Die
• It was All in the Painting – she had seen it two years prior
• The Final Betrayal -  homeless without a family

Chapter 15   Building Paradise Found

• First a Home for Mayke’s Passion

PART THREE    The Almost Definitive Adventure

Chapter 16   Bringing Seanee Home

• Preparing the Adventure – Night Fevers
• The Call on Approach to Jacksonville
• Preparing for the Worst – The Knockdown
• The World Upside Down – Can’t Listen to my Pains
• Brain Driven Automatic Drive – Save the Raft at Any Cost
• GPIRB Ceases to Emit – do they know we are out here?
• Cannot Show Despair – My Final Command : Abandon Ship
• It’s my End of my Road – Time to Go

Chapter 17    How Many Miracles

• A Miracle They Came – A miracle They Engaged
• The GPIRB that Will not be Left Behind
• No Room for an Extra Crewmember – The Cable’ Last Strand
• How Did they Find Us?
• Limping Home on my Final Mission
• Still Holding my life in a Shoebox
• Why was there No Forewarning
• Lessons Learned – NOAA takes Measures
• Corporate Hubris Expressed in Silence

Chapter 18   Understanding What Happened