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Books Boats & Babes: Sailing Around the World: Inspiration To Start Kindle Edition

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Who hasn't dreamt of packing up and just leaving their daily lives behind for a while?

Sherrie and Patrick have and for years they would take months to a year off of work to jump on their motorcycles and ride away.

And then they had babies.

Patrick knew it was time to break out his lifelong dream of sailing around the world.

But Sherrie was the ultimate reluctant sailor.

For anyone who is wondering how to convince their partner to sail away with them, or wondering if they want to do it themselves, this short collection of blog post essays is for you.

It is the story of how Patrick convinced Sherrie to move aboard and sail around the world. Or at least as far as Amsterdam.

Currently in the Carribean and planning the Pacific for 2020, Patrick considers his mission a success.

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Sherrie is a writer, mama and reluctant sailor who traded in her motorcycle adventures for a mommy adventure. Having babies may have filled her with more love than she thought possible, but it did not quell her gypsy ways. Sensing this, Patrick, her partner in life, parenthood, and vagabonding ways worked at this crack to change her fear of the ocean into the desire to move onto a sailboat and sail away.  Which she finally agreed to. 

The boat is Falkor, named after the most awesome Luck Dragon from the Neverending Story. Patrick's first bike was named Emma, after the locomotive from Micheal Ende's Jim Knopf series. Deciding to keep the theme, we chose the one creature that we wanted to take us around the world and named our boat after him.
Falkor is 9.5 meters long (just 31 feet!) but the builder maximized all the space within. Cutting the front berth in half (leaving it the perfect size for sleeping little monkeys) meant that he still managed to get in a small salon. And cutting the cockpit in half meant he was able to make a bedroom in the back.  So we have just enough space. Although abundant space is not something any sailor we know complains about!

The captain is Patrick, the true mastermind behind the idea of sailing the world. As he is German, it is also why we tell everyone we want to do the Barefoot Route and most people look at us like we are crazy. Unless they too are German, and then they get what we mean. Apparently, everyone else calls it the Coconut Milk Run. 

The babes are our little monkeys, The Em to the J and Mr. Man. They were 4 and 2 at the beginning of our journey. Mr. Man loves boats and Falkor is the only home he remembers. The Em to the J, however, told us she likes to visit Falkor but she doesn't want to leave her best friends at Kita. (German daycare.) We're hoping she is happy enough as a pirate princess that sends postcards to her friends telling of her adventures. So long as we have other kids around she is.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07QNSCPMM
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5925 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 53 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Sherrie McCarthy
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Sherrie is a writer, mama, and reluctant sailor who traded in motorcycle adventures for mommy adventures on the open seas. Sherrie believes passionately in the ability of creativity and going deeper to heal. Her book Confessions of a Reluctant Sailor tells about her first two years afloat on her boat as she knit herself back together after tragedy.

Sherrie is also the creator of the Cageology system, which came from the realization that most people live lives they tolerate rather than those they dream of. Cageology helps women create a roadmap for a creative and vibrant life on their terms, a system that brings them back into soul alignment.

She co-hosts the Creative Spirits podcast, and she has been a guest on the podcasts Writer On The Road and Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys. Her writing has been featured in Badassery Magazine as well as the Newfoundland and Labrador’s online magazine The Independent.

Currently afloat in the Caribbean, she lives with her family on her boat Falkor.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021
    I am beginning my sailing journey and it was great to read about how Sherrie and Patrick's journey started. I am excited for what sailing will bring.

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