For decades, you have read and dreamed about voyaging to distant shores in small boats. The adventure, romance, natural wonders, foreign cultures, and call of the sea resonate with voices in your soul. You live in a safe and structured world with familiar rules, laws, regulations, comfortable home, automobile, toys, friends and risks. In spite of this you repeatedly ask yourself, “Can I do really do it?” “Is it too dangerous?” “Can I afford it?” “Is it rewarding and worth the substantial effort?” Let the author take you there, show you what it is really like and answer doubts nagging your mind.This is the author’s chronicle of exiting his familiar life, forsaking land and becoming a traveler on the sea. He shared your dreams, anxieties and questions. He had no ocean-going or large boat experience when he decided to make this change in his life. His adventure is testimony to the real possibility of living ‘The Dream’ and what you can expect along the way. It includes hundreds of stories about the challenges, magical moments in nature and wonderful people he embraced. It is also a cruising guide and unbiased account of his landfalls in the Pacific Northwest, California, west coast of Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos and Bahamas. It includes a web site address that has Jenny’s routes and tracks in downloadable form that you can import into several electronic chart plotters. They show exactly where Jenny went and anchored and can relieve you of some of the tedious charting work and worry.
For decades, you have read and dreamed about voyaging to distant shores in small boats. The adventure, romance, natural wonders, foreign cultures, and call of the sea resonate with voices in your soul. You live in a safe and structured world with familiar rules, laws, regulations, comfortable home, automobile, toys, friends and risks. In spite of this you repeatedly ask yourself, “Can I do really do it?” “Is it too dangerous?” “Can I afford it?” “Is it rewarding and worth the substantial effort?” Let the author take you there, show you what it is really like and answer doubts nagging your mind.This is the author’s chronicle of exiting his familiar life, forsaking land and becoming a traveler on the sea. He shared your dreams, anxieties and questions. He had no ocean-going or large boat experience when he decided to make this change in his life. His adventure is testimony to the real possibility of living ‘The Dream’ and what you can expect along the way. It includes hundreds of stories about the challenges, magical moments in nature and wonderful people he embraced. It is also a cruising guide and unbiased account of his landfalls in the Pacific Northwest, California, west coast of Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos and Bahamas. It includes a web site address that has Jenny’s routes and tracks in downloadable form that you can import into several electronic chart plotters. They show exactly where Jenny went and anchored and can relieve you of some of the tedious charting work and worry.