Why a Booktrail?
Who would think of sailing a boat from the West of Canada to Tahiti?
The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
What you need to know before your trail
Kevin Patterson did. Following a brief romance and a period of self pity, he decided to have an adventure and sail in a boat to Tahiti from Canada. That’s quite a distance for someone who up until that moment had never been in a boat unless you count a ferry.
Stupid or adventurous? This story will help you decide but it will also question your own faith and courage and whether you yourself would have the strength to go through what he did and come out on the other side
Travel Guide
Sailing the High Seas
What do you do when you don’t know what to sail but feel the need to get away from it all?
Escape on a boat and go on a whole new adventure of your own.Well not quite alone as he takes along a friend who does know something about sailing.
There’s still quite an adventure to be had – and they’re all at sea in more ways than one. Kevin is hoping to escape his grief and depression he’s been feeling these past few months but life is not going to be all plain sailing. Sorry enough with the sailing images – suffice to say that this is one adventure on the high seas and the story of how men are best tested with loneliness and the will to survive in extreme conditions.
Before the journey starts and the moment he meets Ericsson:
On meeting Ericson in Genoa Bay:
‘He haranged me with evidence of blue-eyed Indians and tales of while-skinned gods in the Polynesian mythos. I wondered how he managed to make a living selling boats. I tried to get him to tell me about the boat we were standing in front of but he seemed obsessed with this idea of forgotten exploration
“How does it float?” I asked. The inanity of the question stalled him.”
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
I’m not sure what I adore more – this book or the man who wrote it. A man so cut up about his life and emotional state took it upon himself to have the adventure of a life time. Throughout his journey (in every sense of the word) he learns more about himself and his state of mind than ever before whilst also seeing the wonders of the open ocean.
And what does he take on the journey apart from the obvious bits and pieces? Books that’s what! He reads lots on the journey and talks about what he learns and is thinking and I just wanted to be on that boat with him.
He did something that on paper looks wrong, but in real life, he had the strength to seize life by the horns and go for it. And take books with him. If there is a more perfect man in a book then I don’t know who he is.
On a serious note however,this book is a look at what travelling does to the soul, how sailing and allowing the ocean to open up your horizons, how wanderlust is deep inside your soul, then this is a remarkable read. Very unique and very special.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
Author/Guide Kevin Patterson Destination: BC, Pacific Ocean, Tahiti Departure Time: 2000s
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