A nervewracking crossing
Seven years ago I gave up my job as head of physics in a comprehensive school and joined my partner Don on his Nicholson 39ft ketch, Antares.
Since then we have been drifting our way through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, and down to the South Pacific, New Zealand, stopping en route to live on a small island in the Dodecanese in Greece for four years.
Our cruising life has taken us to remote islands in the Marquesas, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji, which are difficult to reach by public transport.
