Renato Chavasco is a Urologist. He wrote The First Defeats of a Bold Navigator at an important period in his life, which was between adolescence and early youth. After almost thirty years, he had the courage to publish it. He always liked writing prose and poetry. Its great icons in this area are Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Fernando Sabino. They are poems that portray their anguish, their daydreams, in short, their own vision of the world in front of a large open sea. But it is there, firm and ready to face the storms.