Captain Perseverance Brimshaw is now almost 95 years old. He started planning his maiden voyage aboard the Queen Mary in 1935 at the fair age of 22. All throughout his childhood Perseverance was an impeccable planner. It is a miracle that he ever actually made it through school as he would regularly plan the contents of his bag and pencil case with such microscopic precision that his gargantuan organisational effort would take all night and he would often only leave the house after being carted out by the family's long suffering butler, Smithers.
His self-funded maiden voyage aboard the Queen Mary was going to be no exception. If he really was going to be the first nautical expedition to circumnavigate South Amercia, through the Panama Canal and round Cape Horn, unaided, unstopping and powered entirely by steam; then he was going to plan every last detail and the details of every detail ad infinitum in a Zeno like marathon of analysis.
And so the planning continues and, unbeknownst to Perseverance, the top deck of the boat has since been converted into a bar that is regularly frequented by tourists, Asians and middle managers.
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