Yes good book. SWMBO gave me a copy for xmas. Very easy to read and some wonderful passages and humour.

"I had read all the accounts written by the tightly-focused sailing stars and, to be honest, they made me more tired than the sailing itself. Take Ellen MacArthur. When I read that she claimed she could never forgive herself, ever in her life, for having, in a round-the-world race, wasted a full two hours in crossing the equator, I realised the enormity of the motivational gulf between us."

(The Last Man Across the Atlantic, Paul Heiney)

Brilliant!

I was reading it over the xmas period. Coincidently, while reading the book reviews in January's Yachting Monthly, which SWMBO had also bought me as a present, I came across a review of A life before the mast by Nick Heiney.

Nick is Paul's son, there is an email from him in Paul's book. Sadly he committed suicide, the book is a collection of his prose that was put together by Nick's mum (and Paul's wife) Libby Purves, who writes a column in Yachting Monthly.

I think that's correct.

I was reading The Last Man Across the Atlantic and then all of a sudden there was this second sad story unfolding, also involving the people in Paul's book.

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