After migrating to Australia with family from the UK at the age of 14.JJ Paterson embarked on the school of life. Eventually becoming involved in the offshore gas industry. A commercial diver. licenced rigger ,crane operator and pile barge forman. With enough money saved, quit the offshore work to realize a long held goal when JJ bought a local music bar and became a publican, Unfortunately years later the sale of the bar dissolved into a protracted legal nightmare.Then fate threw a curved ball. With little cash and few options JJ accepted a job as dellivery crew on a 17mt yacht.Singapore bound for west Australia.What follows is probaly best descrbed as a story that had to be told.