The Journey

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By Mathew Du Port

GCSE English Coursework

Unit 2

The Journey

I had decided to take a gap year from my job, working in a boat yard. I had bought myself a largish boat from a good friend, second hand. I remember that I was very lucky to get this boat from him as I got it for a great price, that’s why you have friends after all! After I had done a lot of work on it and got her sea-worthy I named her, Maglendy, after my parent’s boat. The boat is a 23foot long ocean star with 2 diesel engines to power her. She doesn’t go fast but that doesn’t matter as I had a year to do whatever I wanted!

Next I had to decide where in the world I would like to take her. The world was my oyster! After a lot of research I decided to go cruising around the Mediterranean Sea near to Sicily. I chose this location as I thought that as the area was not too big so I would be able to visit all of the different places, thereby getting a true feel of the area. Also another reason why I chose this place was that I had never been there before in my life and I had decided that one of my goals in life was to get around the world and experience as many things as possible.

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Now I had to gain a bit of extra knowledge, so I decided to enrol myself in classes on offshore boat handling so that I had a better margin of safety, as I was travelling on my own. Also I had spent a considerable amount of money on radar equipment and charts for my boat, having also bought one of the latest devices called a GPS, which would tell me where exactly in the world I was. This could come in very useful!

As the journey was a very long one from the my home in the ...

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