Everyone warned us that it’s bad luck, but Harriet and I did it anyway: we changed the name of our boat. For 14 years our Dolphin 460 46-foot cruising cat was called Hands Across the Sea after the US-based Caribbean child-literacy nonprofit we founded in 2007. After we retired from running our charity in 2020, we decided to rename the boat , because that’s where we were headed next.
