With an insatiable yearning to escape the mundane existence of his marriage and the dreary prospect of a working class life of factory employment, and servitude, Bill Smith's wayward passion would lead him to brutal incarceration, near death, and sexual experiences far more challenging than crossing the ocean in a bathtub. The idea of building a boat not much bigger than a bathtub and sailing it alone across the oceans of the world, would stretch most people's bounds of bravery and insanity beyond their limits, but recent history is littered with a number of such characters who have done exactly that.