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Bezig met laden... Sea Legs: One Family's Adventure on the Oceandoor Guy Grieve
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Three years after his return from the Alaskan wilderness, Guy Grieve was living on the Isle of Mull in Scotland with his wife Juliet and their two young sons. Sick of the weather, perennial colds and their increasingly routine lifestyle, they'd all been getting restless. Finally, Guy and Juliet broke in spectacular style - they re-mortgaged their house and bought a yacht. Her name was Forever.The plan? To pick up Forever from her mooring in the Leeward Antilles off the coast of Venezuela, and sail around the West Indies before crossing the Atlantic back to Scotland. This was despite the fact that Guy, skipper of the expedition, had almost no sailing experience. Travelling around the lush tropical islands of the Caribbean and up the waterways of America, the family had countless sublime moments as they discovered the freedoms of sailing - anchoring in deserted bays, night passages under star-studded skies, and entering New York by water, greeted by the Statue of Liberty. But there were also testing times as they grappled with seasickness and bad weather, coping with young children at sea and learning to run a large, complex boat. Far from being the idyllic escape they'd envisaged, the journey forced Guy and Juliet to draw on reserves of courage and endurance they never knew they had. Wry, funny and buccaneering, this is a compelling tale of bravery and endeavour, out on the open sea. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Why don't we buy a boat?
And sail it home from Venezuela?
With the children?
And so they do. They purchase a vessel called Forever, and with only a very basic sailing qualification and experience start their adventure. They are helped by his father in law at the beginning to get to grips with the boat and all the things that they have to learn fast. As they travel through the Caribbean they suffer sea sickness, doubts and temper, but are all amazed by the places that they see and the people they meet. They have a near miss with pirates and end up staying for a month in Trinidad while the deck is replaced.
After his in laws leave they take the brave choice to go across the Bermuda Triangle to the USA. It was a tough journey, 10 days across open ocean and during the storm season, but they do finally make it. They travel up the eastern seaboard before reaching the city of New York. His wife and family travel back to Scotland, and he is joined by David, someone they had met earlier in their journey, for the last leg across the Atlantic.
This is the toughest part, the Atlantic is not the kindest of oceans, and the time they choose to go is hurricane season. They head north to Nova Scotia with the hope of jumping across the to and avoiding the worst storms. But they don't. They manage to endure the aftereffect of Hurricane Bertha and lock themselves in the boat for three days whilst the storm does it's worst.
It is a great account of people following their dream, and actually going and taking on a challenge that they are not actually sure that they are capable of. In his earlier book, Call of the Wild, he has a similar challenge, but this time it is his family. Sometimes it reads like a thriller, and other time a regular travel book. I think that his sons will be so much richer for the experience that they had.
It is a great travel book, well worth reading if you have an interest in sailing and like to see how a complete family responds to the challenges that they set themselves. (