Barbara Arnold inherited her love of travel and adventure from her parents. From an early age, she explored Europe and, later, further afield. She qualified as a teacher, married and brought up two boys. After her divorce, she then took up dinghy sailing and yachting with her second husband; they retired early and sailed across the Atlantic and cruised the Caribbean, North and South America and into the Pacific.
There are many aspects to sailing a small yacht in a big ocean from unfathomable joy to abject fear; from a sense of freedom to frustration and from a deep sense of peace to foreboding terror. You are masters of your own destiny but there are skills needed. Gone are the solid floorboards, exchanged ...