CONTENTS

Foreword

Part One First Time Round

Chapter One On a Whim or a Wind’s Whisper

Chapter Two Which Way Barbados?

Chapter Three the Hallelujah Chorus

Chapter Four Tying the Knot

Part Two Squaring the Account

Chapter Five Land of Hope and Glory

Chapter Six Feeling the Old Freedom

Chapter Seven Screams in the Rigging

Chapter Eight Christmas Alone

Chapter Nine Lost

Chapter Ten Yachtsman of the Year

Part Three Third Time Lucky

Chapter Eleven Hands Open

Chapter Twelve Breaking Out

Chapter Thirteen No Regrets

Epilogue Away Again

Acknowledgements