I finished my journey on a small boat that sails every week from the Chilean port of Punta Arenas to the intimate island town of Puerto Williams, the most southerly community in the world.
It is a far cry from the eye-wateringly expensive museums he has built recently, with their double-curved glass sails hanging as monuments to their patron's vanity.
A young couple, Rosie Felton and Zain Baggott, have recently taken over Covean Cottage and Cafe (01720 422620, coveancottage.com) with the promise of a new menu, and the Turk's Head pub offers great evening meals, popular with the supper boat that sails daily from St Mary's.
Those with heavy luggage and camping equipment travel on The Scillonian III, a ferry which sails from Penzance to Hugh Town on the island of St Mary's.
On the first, we pulled down our sails, put the engine on and ran from a bit of rough sea.
When the time inevitably came, our departure was eased only by a promise made that, one day, a few more courses under our belt, we would return on our old ketch, her bow cutting those clear waters and her sails filled with the warm Caribbean wind.
In effect, Media Lens is saying, they trim their sails and pull their punches to accommodate their paymasters, their presence in the paper's Comment columns little more than a gesture to pluralism or dissent.
As the movement for Catalan nationhood has whipped up a storm, the campaign for Scottish independence has lost some wind from its sails.
The Australis sails from Punta Arenas, a town of many monuments and abundant rain, through channels and straits bordered by mountains that still bear the glaciers that shaped them, sometimes presenting nothing more than vast expanses of grey, bare rock.
That's not all: Black Sails is The Sopranos of the seas; Vikings is Game Of Thrones for people who have read a book besides Game Of Thrones; Ripper Street – rescued by Amazon after the Beeb cancelled it – is superb for many reasons, at least nine of which are Jerome Flynn.
Because the site is one you go around, and even sail around, the building needed to be a sculpture, so I spread the two theatres, instead of putting them in a box, and put sails over them to keep the feeling of being on the sea.
