### Clue: About to start, seas break over ship — so reconsider (8)
### Answer: REASSESS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: reconsider
A charade of RE ('about'; 'to start' emphasizes that this is the first particle) plus ASSESS, an envelope ('over') of SS (the first pair, 'ship') in AESS, an anagram ('break') of 'seas'.