A Tale of Two Yachts: One Century Separates Our Sailing Couples' Remarkably Similar Cruises

A joyous comparative study of two kindred voyages undertaken a lifetime apart.

In early summer 2015, following recent retirement, Barbara and Robert White left Plymouth, UK, on their elderly sailing yacht Zoonie, heading westwards to commence their circumnavigation. Eighty-seven years before them, in late summer 1928, recently married Erling and Julie Tambs left Ulvøysund, Norway, aboard their engineless, retired pilot cutter Teddy, on a similarly westwards route, to begin their cruise to th...