“So hope for a great sea change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.”
These mental images of the sea by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney explore themes of struggles and hope. My husband, Gerry, and I left Dublin in 1986 with our baby daughter and an ambitious spirit to make a better life in Brooklyn, N.Y. Our immigrant journey would have an imprint on every other life choice we would make, including our notion to cross the Pacific, many years later, in our Nordhavn 43.
Our cruising life began in America in 1990 when, with no sailing experience whatsoever, we met a fellow Irishman who had crossed the Atlantic in
