early Oct-mid-Nov: staying in Barcelona in two communities linked to the Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC), learning how their seemingly hundreds of co-operative projects work and are integrated/networked, how their various internal currencies and crypto-currencies work and how international links/trading partnerships can be developed.
late Nov-New Year: sail across the Atlantic
Jan to mid-July 2018: a clockwise tour of North America, starting and ending in the south east (Florida? The Caribbean? Mississippi?)
late July: sail back to the UK