Passport to Adventure: The final stage of a twenty five circumnavigation
Year: 2011 Language: English Author: Shirley Billing Genre: Textbook Publisher: Bosun - Publications Edition: First Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 216 Description: This is Shirley's own story of the last lap from Cyprus back to England to complete their 25 year westabout voyage around the world. "In 1982 in our late forties, we sold the house and car, cashed insurance policies, invested two thirds, then spent the remaining £30,000 on our boat to sail away. It was the best decision of our lives. We have never looked upon ourselves as real sailors, but here we are, Peter and I, twenty five years later, having completed a 65,000 mile circumnavigation by ourselves in our own boat. Just an ordinary couple with no introductions to auspicious personages, no rally guide to pave the way and little money. We have had a fantastic time and been welcomed into grand houses and native huts, enjoyed the world and relished our freedom." This book is a brief account of incidents in the last lap of our voyage when after a thrid working opportunity, this time in Shanghai, we rejoined Clypeus in Cyprus anticipating a couple of years to sail home. However, we dawdled - the cruising life was so good in the Mediterranean that when we did eventually turn for home, we made some serious mistakes. Age caught up with us and Peter had a heart attack in Paris. However, here we are in 2010, both well and happy having swopped our beloved boat for a camper van and are now off to explore Europe - free to travel where we wish and in charge of our own destinies again - and without having to worry about the anchor dragging! Life isn't a rehearsal. There's a wonderful world out there to explore. Today many forty and fifty-year-olds look with dismay at their future prospects - perhaps it would be better to seize the day and enjoy ten or twenty years living the simple life. Additional info: Shirley Billing, M.A. Is an international yachting journalist. Born in Wales, she has lived in England, Scotland, Australia, the USA, Taiwan, Singapore and Shanghai. Her father and her own family have always had boats. An RYA qualified Yachtmaster, she and her husband Peter have sailed around the world on their own in their own boar. Peter, a chartered engineer has kept their now thirty year old boat in good condition without outside help - so much so that her new owners have already sailed away and are in the Caribbean.
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Passport to Adventure: The final stage of a twenty five circumnavigation
Language: English
Author: Shirley Billing
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Bosun - Publications
Edition: First
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 216
Description: This is Shirley's own story of the last lap from Cyprus back to England to complete their 25 year westabout voyage around the world.
"In 1982 in our late forties, we sold the house and car, cashed insurance policies, invested two thirds, then spent the remaining £30,000 on our boat to sail away. It was the best decision of our lives.
We have never looked upon ourselves as real sailors, but here we are, Peter and I, twenty five years later, having completed a 65,000 mile circumnavigation by ourselves in our own boat. Just an ordinary couple with no introductions to auspicious personages, no rally guide to pave the way and little money. We have had a fantastic time and been welcomed into grand houses and native huts, enjoyed the world and relished our freedom."
This book is a brief account of incidents in the last lap of our voyage when after a thrid working opportunity, this time in Shanghai, we rejoined Clypeus in Cyprus anticipating a couple of years to sail home. However, we dawdled - the cruising life was so good in the Mediterranean that when we did eventually turn for home, we made some serious mistakes. Age caught up with us and Peter had a heart attack in Paris. However, here we are in 2010, both well and happy having swopped our beloved boat for a camper van and are now off to explore Europe - free to travel where we wish and in charge of our own destinies again - and without having to worry about the anchor dragging!
Life isn't a rehearsal. There's a wonderful world out there to explore. Today many forty and fifty-year-olds look with dismay at their future prospects - perhaps it would be better to seize the day and enjoy ten or twenty years living the simple life.
Additional info: Shirley Billing, M.A.
Is an international yachting journalist.
Born in Wales, she has lived in England, Scotland, Australia, the USA, Taiwan, Singapore and Shanghai. Her father and her own family have always had boats.
An RYA qualified Yachtmaster, she and her husband Peter have sailed around the world on their own in their own boar. Peter, a chartered engineer has kept their now thirty year old boat in good condition without outside help - so much so that her new owners have already sailed away and are in the Caribbean.
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