Unfortunately I do not have the skills to help - but I wish him all the best with this endeavour. I said to him at the start of this series of unfortunate events: "Perhaps you will use this opportunity to find new paths and be the better for it." and I really hope that is so.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html