Going West: Two Years Sailing Around the World - Softcover

Fitzgibbon, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856353575 ISBN 13: 9781856353571

Publisher: The Mercier Press, 2001

Synopsis

Frank and Barbara Fitzgibbon, an ordinary couple in their fifties, were running their own business in Cork when they felt an urge to do something memorable while they were still healthy. They decided to take a two-year sabbatical, sold their home, left their six children and, with limited experience at sea and headed off in a sixteen-year-old thirty-nine foot boat to see the world. Learning as they went along, they extended their journeys from an initial two-night hop to Brittany to a lonely thirty-six days at sea in the Pacific, a period in which they saw only three other boats. Both had to undergo emergency surgery early in the voyage and they were shot at in the Red Sea but they lived to tell the tale and returned filled with incomparable memories. Seeking the Trade winds, they visited the Galapagos Islands, then roamed through Indonesia to Bali, and from Singapore to Malaysia and Sri Lanka, before struggling up the Red Sea to Cyprus and the Greek islands This is a travel tale that will enthral with its simplicity, and inspire all its readers to believe that they can do almost anything if they really want to.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Fitzgibbon took a BA in Modern Languages and has worked as a teacher, airline rep, administrator, tour guide, car shunter, mother, cook and confidante. She has six children and two grandchildren and lives by the sea with her husband Frank.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Mercier Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856353575
• ISBN 13: 9781856353571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250