"Hey, before we get married, why don't we first go on an adventure and see the world? I can get us a job doing laundry on board a merchant training ship and together we can head out for the open seas." That was the sales pitch the author used to convince his fianc e to see the world over twenty-five years ago. The part he didn't tell her was that the ship they were going to be sailing on was over fifty years old and that they would be doing laundry...