Flying out alone, I was due to meet our friends Janet and Richard in Rhode Island, as our proposed UK crew had cancelled at short notice. Given the potentially demanding overnight offshore passage to New York, Richard had strong-armed a local couple, Ellen and David, to join us aboard Swallow. Janet, a former Reluctant Sailing Wife, now fully retired from the sea, doubted Ellen’s enthusiasm. But her husband David raised no alarms, so on they hopped.
We cast off from Wickford
