Sell Your House and Buy a Sailboat: Then Sail Halfway Around The World

The idea for this sailing adventure was planted with Tinkerbelle, a book by Robert Manry about a solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a thirteen-and-a-half-foot sailboat, which I read in 1967. That seed lay dormant for thirty-six years, until the one day when I came home from my job as a marine biologist.
“Raymond,” my darling wife, Judy, said, “I have spent twenty-five years here. This is my last winter in Alaska. I am leaving.” She paused. “I hope you will come with me.”
​ I considered ...