Perhaps that's our problem - our sailors are too young to understand that reference. :-/
BTW - solo circumnavigation, in today's environment? Seems a lot more risky than back when Robin Lee Graham did it in the late '60s.
When I was at Canoe U we had regularly scheduled practice in navigating and Conning the Yard Patrol Craft at the academy in the Severn River and the Chesapeake. I guess the NROTC guys don’t get near enough of that kind of training.