Confessions of a Reluctant Sailor Ebook Out On Kindle Unlimited

Hi everyone! My book Confessions of a Reluctant Sailor is out this week for 99 cents (or free on Kindle Unlimited).

It follows our journey for the first 2 years in our first boat, the 31 foot steel boat Falkor.

I do want to stress that this book is very much about my emotional journey as both a reluctant sailor (as in terrified) and the grief stricken person I was when we started (we almost ended our relationship 3 months before setting sail and then my youngest brother died two months before we left).  So this is very much not about what we saw but more about the emotional healing sailing brought me and us. There is also a little on the digital nomad lifestyle for anyone thinking of starting it.

If that does sounds like something you would like then please check it out! But if you are looking for more of a where to go and what to see it will disappoint!

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Who doesn’t want to quit the rat race and pack it all in to see the world?

And it is not as if Sherrie and Patrick were strangers to travel. They met on Patrick’s first round the world trip by motorcycle. Sherrie fell hard for the open road and the freedom of two wheels and a tent.

How much harder could living on a sailboat be?

Or at least that was Patrick’s opinion. Sherrie is a Newfoundlander. She thought it prudent  to bring up the Titanic whenever Patrick mentioned his dream of sailing around the world.

And then they had babies.

Which meant that dream of sticking them in a sidecar was no longer so realistic. Because putting imaginary babies in your sidecar is very different from putting breathing ones in. The desire to keep up a semi nomadic lifestyle beckoned, but could Sherrie get over her fear of living on the ocean?

And just as she agrees to commit to a life afloat, heartbreak and betrayal threaten to end the trip before it even begins.

Confessions of A Reluctant Sailor tells of how one family on the verge of breaking up and a woman brought to her knees with grief, went forward with fulfilling a dream and knitting themselves back together, all the while learning the very real difference between fear and danger.

If you have ever dreamed of packing up and escaping the rat race, or even wondered how to move forward during a time of heartbreak and loss, get your copy today.

Available for 99 cents during launch week only!

Tour Of Our New Boat! A 1978 Moody 42

Falkor has officalliy changed hands and now is with his new owner and we have moved onto Adare!

Check out the tour by these two adorable little guys:

And the false start if you are so inclined 😛

Year End Reflection: Almost 2 years of full time live aboards with kids

1 year in the Caribbean and almost 2 since we set sail from Poland! (It took 15 minutes to be back in Germany but whatever!😜) And still my throwback shot from 2009 (2008 even?) in Greece on Betty made it in. You can take the motorcycle away from the girl but you can’t take the memories. (Because the bike is gone gone. Like sold in Mongolia gone. ) 🧜‍♀️💜🧜‍♀️ This time last year I was getting ready to join Patrick back in St. Lucia after he crossed the Atlantic with friends.
Now Falkor is for sale and our “maybe to the Caribbean but I’ll only promise to Amsterdam, and no more than 3 years max” has turned into sell Falkor, buy a bigger boat and do this indefinitely.

Not bad considering today as we sat in the cockpit talking about all that we need to do to move onto the new boat I pointed out that our first year sailing I was figuring out if we would stay together or not. #jokingnotjoking

I really don’t regret buying Falkor. He’s too small for a family of 4 but he has given us some amazing adventures, knitted our family back together again and taught me that there is a huge difference between fear and danger. Knowing what I know now I’d still go for a smaller boat that didn’t break the bank but let us figure out if we could do this sailing thing or not. (Not the travel. We did motorcycling and tenting for years. But the ocean? Gah! See fear and danger. I’m a Newfoundlander, we sank the titanic!) But now that I have committed to this lifestyle I can’t freaking wait to have SPACE and a reading corner.

2017 was heartbreak and mending. 2018 was confidence and growth. I’m looking forward to 2019. And it’s wonderful to be able to say that.

Falkor Is For Sale

We are doing it! Falkor is for sale and we have bought a bigger boat!

When we set out on this adventure Patrick wanted to sail around the world and I promised as far as Amsterdam. Then Portugal. Then the Caribbean.

Now I am ready to say let’s keep going for the next 5 -10 years. Falkor was amazing and if it wasn’t for the fact that I felt so safe on him we would never have been able to come this far. However, we bought him thinking he was the boat that would be our home for 2 – 3 years. Or maybe just a couple of months if I completely freaked out and couldn’t handle sailing. Crashing motorcycles was so much less scary than being out on the ocean.

But there is a big difference between fear and danger. And I will always love that Falkor helped teach me that.

But he was never meant for us to live on long-term as a family. And we had a lot of thinking to do this year. I had fallen in love with cruising, but I needed a bigger boat with two small children who were getting bigger and bigger. Given the choice between returning to Europe and keeping Falkor for summer vacations around the Baltics, or selling him and sailing onwards with a bigger boat, Patrick chose the bigger boat.

Which means Falkor is for sale!

If you are looking for a solid, safe and affordable bluewater cruising boat, or know someone who is, contact us! Falkor has his own for sale page now and it is really only the fact he can’t grow with us that we are saying goodbye.

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