When she set off to cross the Atlantic as part of a delivery crew,
Jill Dickin Schinas had no idea that she was embarking on a whole
new life, but within a week of setting out she and the skipper were
making plans for a journey to Cape Horn. One year later the couple
were on their way but had detoured up the Amazon to get married.
Two years after that they were crossing the Atlantic again, this
time from the Caribbean and this time with the ship's company
enlarged by the addition of a two year old son and a babe in arms.
Together the little family then headed directly for the Falkland
Islands and the southern tip of South America - travelling via the
Bahamas, the Azores, Portugal, the Canaries, Cape Verde, Senegal,
Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Sao Tome and
Principe, Uruguay, Argentina, and various tenanted and untenanted
islets and lumps of rock cast adrift in the Atlantic Ocean. Seven
years after setting out, they almost reached their destination...
On the face of it, this book is a travelogue, but it is also a
portrait of the cruising lifestyle - the hand-to-mouth, alternative
lifestyle, not the early-retirement luxury cruise. ////////// "Yes,
we were bound for Cape Horn... in as much as we had a destination,
this indeed was it. But we were in no great hurry, and even this
goal was viewed as little more than a staging post on our journey,
for we meant to journey indefinitely. Truly, it was not a place but
a lifestyle which we were setting forth to find." ////////// The
family's adventures range from fighting gales and battling with
immigration officials, to exploring uncharted African waters and
abandoning ship to board a chopper via the winch cable. There is
much in here that will be of value to other yachtsmen and other
travellers, and heaps which will appeal to armchair voyagers and to
families seeking to turn away from the nine-to-five motorway and
tread a road of their own. ////////// Contains 31 pen-and-ink
drawings and cartoons. Includes a brief glossary for people not
conversant with sailing terminology. By the author of Kids in the
Cockpit (a guide to sailing and cruising with children). //////////
"The Schinas family are talented people. There's nothing on the
planet that Nick can't fix, while Jill is an artist of character.
The children are developing in the same mould, but the overriding
feature of all their lives and the guiding spirit of this book, is
their self-sufficiency and courage to make their own choices, come
fair weather or foul. Casting fate to the ocean winds without
visible means of support in the third millennium demands a lot more
guts than ever it did thirty years ago. Keeping going, despite
producing three fine children and surviving a capsize off the
Falklands that ended on the winch cable of an RAF helicopter, shows
the true spirit of seafaring." - TOM CUNLIFFE
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