You're not ready till you're ready. Dilip wrestles with the naval bureaucracy even as he counts down to his departure on August 19th!
Serendipitiously, we are recording this in the same month, in fact the actual recording was done on August 10th, the day Mhadei sailed to Mumbai in preparation for her maiden voyage.&nbsp; 
Inevitably, some of the craziness from that time seems to have rubbed off on this recording. Our apologies!

Chapter 23: Down Under - Part 1

Listen to Dilip Donde's adventures of being the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe under sail. Faced with countless bureaucratic hurdles, lack of sailing experience and training, the condition to build his sail boat in India; he coasted along to meet the challenges thrown at him by the oceans, to achieve something that was never attempted in India. Capt Donde's success paved the way for the next 7 Indian circumnavigators. 

Today, he and his partner Sucheta, offers blue ocean sailing experiences on their sailing yacht, Antara; making sailing accessible and affordable for all.