"I'm on my own." Which is very unfortunate for him, as he's not particularly reasonable and he hasn't spent any length of time by himself in decades. "But I met a kid called Fabian, his dad was a pirate."

So that's three of them. And he suspects he's the only one with enough experience to actually build something that float.

"I was thinking a simple sail boat to start. Just to see if we can go from one island to the next."