This is the story of my lifetime partner Liz and me during the early 1980’s. We both decided to sell our shares in a large public company that I had headed for several years, thus quitting the ‘rat race’ in order to change our previous very busy and stressful life. Liz was a senior buyer, and keen to have a change and a new challenge. My idea was to write a best-selling financial novel and make a living as an author. To do this we took a sabbatical to the West Indies and chartered a yacht in order to get away from the world, relax and create an environment conducive to creativity. It didn’t quite work the way we planned, and we initially struggled with learning to sail a yacht, something neither of us had done before. The first craft we sailed was not designed for Caribbean waters and we had to deal with various unforeseen challenges, one life-threatening.Some amusing chapters highlight the changes experienced, from us being high-flying executives to dealing with a Caribbean life style. Subsequently we fell into the charter business rather by mistake. We found ourselves sailing a large luxury yacht around the Leeward and the Windward Islands pandering to wealthy and sometimes unreasonable charter guests. As a skipper and host we experienced what it was like to deal with the rich set, a group that we’d recently been part of, and often having to deal with bizarre situations. Then we met Laurie.The yacht we sailed during the first year of chartering was called Silver Star a 63-foot Nautilus ketch. This book only deals with the first year out of 2 years chartering in the Caribbean. After chartering on a luxury yacht for two years, Liz decided to buy a restaurant in the West Indies to acquire an easier life style.It did not quite work out as planned either. From an alcoholic chef who loved women, any woman, to the vagaries of provisioning in an area that constantly ran out of staple foods, such as potatoes, onions and fish, Liz had her hands full.Dealing with storms that sometimes left the restaurant without water or electricity for days on end, was another factor that tried the sanity of the new owners.

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