Dragonfly Imago

What does it take to make a dream come true? Tenacity, hope, love, luck? For Ken and Patricia Gogay ? two like-minded spirits drawn together through circumstance and serendipity ? it is all of these things that drive them on to transform their own particular day-dream into reality. The object of their imagining is a boat ? Imago. And their story ? of how a middle-aged man and woman overcome almost insuperable physical and emotional obstacles to build it ? by hand, from scratch, on a shoestring, before heading off to sail the oceans ? is deeply symbolic. Together, they grow as their boat and their dream evolve. In so doing, they each come to terms with the past and reconcile some of the archetypal conflicts we all endure: between men and women, apathy and enterprise, ?I wish? dreams and ?I will? dreams... Written with rare candour, humour and profound insight, Imago is part personal memoir (chronicling the author's troubled past), part boat-building chronicle (detailing a decade of trial and tribulation), and part probing exploration into the journey we (hopefully) all take: from formative experience to liberating metamorphosis; from nymph to imago. It is an extraordinary achievement that speaks to the restless spirit in all of us.