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Headline: Pilgrim’s progress STANDFIRST: After a lifetime of messing around with boats, a former gamekeeper, joiner and nature reserve warden charts his journey through triumph and tragedy in a new book to raise funds for a charity that saved his life WORDS IAN LAMMING We are sitting in a boat, on the back of a trailer, outside a shed and nowhere near water. I would not normally mention the setting of an interview but, on this occasion, it is important because the boat is everything. Sixteen feet long, the Yachting Monthly Senior is more than a boat to its owner Martin Norris, it is a metaphor, a time machine, physical and mental therapy and the inspiration for his new book Pilgrim’s (surprisingly slow) Progress, which he has just finished for a good cause.