For Kate Ashe-Leonard, what was intended as an adventurous sabbatical from her London career has turned into a way of life
I moved from Dublin to London in 2017. Emboldened by leaving Dublin, I felt more open to change than ever before, and a year later I did a sailing course in Brighton. I had no sailing background, but I felt at home on the water.
The day came when we untied our dock lines and sailed to Greece, where we spent four months. We headed back through the Mediterranean and, by November, reached Lanzarote, followed by Cabo Verde islands. We crossed the Atlantic Ocean in December and made landfall in Antigua. After transiting the Panama Canal, we sailed to Galápagos before completing the remainder of the journey. We spent a glorious year in French Polynesia, getting to know three of its five archipelagos before continuing westward to Samoa and then Tonga.
There are inevitable, unenviable weeks spent in hot, dusty boat yards doing maintenance, because things on boats become damaged easily in this salty environment. Developing a detailed knowledge of every system on board is essential unless you are willing to pay others and depend upon them to fix things for you.
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