Have you wondered how it’d be like to dump the rat race to sail around the world?
Here’s how that worked out for the author, a gripping, constantly on-the-edge-of-disaster sailing adventure punctuated by the unique and wacky characters from the worldwide cruising community, all with the same wild and crazy dream.
“My 35-foot Erickson sloop Grendel was sinking in the Pacific Ocean. I’d bragged about sailing around the world, but two hours after I began, it was a disaster. I was slip-sliding around Grendel, searching for leaks, enveloped in an eerie blanket of fog with zero visibility, surrounded by invisible hazards. Glub, glub.”
So, it didn’t go exactly as planned, a reality like nothing you could envision, a comedy of errors on land and at sea. An absurdly true story and prequel to RV the World.
Targeted Age Group:: Over 18
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The crazy characters and adventures encountered on a daily basis as an active member of the worldwide sailing community, weathering hurricanes, foreign customs and bureaucrats, crusty curmudgeons, and winsome women. A great way to see the world, if you can hack it. Including easier and less stress inducing alternatives to seeing the entire world closeup and in depth.
Book Sample
My thirty-five-foot Erickson sailboat was sinking in the Pacific Ocean. I’d bragged about sailing around the world but two hours after leaving Todos Santos Sur, an island a few miles off Ensenada, Mexico, I was slip-sliding around searching for the source of a colossal leak, enveloped in an eerie blanket of fog with zero visibility and surrounded by invisible hazards. Glub, glub. The floorboards were floating as I ran below, stubbing fingers, frantically yanking open cupboard doors, looking for ruptured water lines. If my longtime girlfriend Mary had come along as planned, I wouldn’t be in this predicament. Solo sailing seriously sucked.
I feverishly searched the lockers on the starboard side, flipping red levers to close through-valves, unable to find the leak that threatened to destroy years of planning and everything I owned. A life jacket bobbed in the galley as I yanked open another locker. No leak there either.
Whirling dervishes had nothing on me. I was all over the boat, pulling everything out of lockers, checking nine through-hulls. I found no leaks, but the second I stopped holding down the manual switch for the bilge pump, the bilge began refilling. I couldn’t tell where the water was coming from. I must have been insane, sailing a small vessel single-handedly on the largest ocean in the world.
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