The book splits between the Dunnes encounters and back home with the smarmy step father hot shot lawyer. In this terrifying true story, two couples sail to a remote Pacific atoll, but only one couple makes it off the Island alive.

This is what we often think or hear from others when we are faced with a change or a problem in our lives. Additionally, Slocum is an example that through determination, courage and hard work any dream can easily become a reality. Miles Smeeton and his wife Beryl sailed their 46-ft Bermuda ketch, Tzu Hang, in the wild seas of Cape Horn, following the tracks of the old sailing clippers through the world’s most notorious waters. How tiresome would it be to spend two months on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean trying to keep someone from drowning herself?

All in all it made me feel like The Family Dunne; A bad metaphore sailing through an ocean of sh*te. However, events soon conspire to render the trip less therapeutic and, in fact, close to disastrous. All of the Smeeton books are fantastic bur that YouTube video of Tzu Jang is not Miles and Beryl’s yacht but a racing yacht of the same name. The wife is remarried and worth a lot of money so when weird things keep happening to the boat, theres a clear motive for murder. The Dunne family, led by matriarch Katherine, are setting out for a sailing adventure in the Caribbean.

Find a first edition - from Agatha Christie to Émile Zola - of your favourite book to add to your collection.Now that the mother is the figurehead of the family she decides it is time to spend some time with her children, all of whom are falling apart in one way or another. In this list, you’ll find books about sailing around the world, first-hand accounts of daring Antarctic adventures, true crime nautical thrillers, and meditative musings about life at sea.

Seriously, this book is definitely one of his best, out of all the ones I have read and I highly recommend it!This 600-mile course of the UK’s Fastnet Race started with perfect weather, but within two days the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea. Junger tells the story of the Perfect Storm, a record topping storm that hit the east coast of North America in the fall of 1991. I think if James Patterson himself were to review this book he would give it a poor rating and most surely chastise himself; he really shouldn't let this happen again.