repairing and refitting Windspirit my partner and I were going at it full time for the first month but the costs add up and we needed to find employment. I found contract work in Brisbane and the contract has been extended until June 2018. My partner was able to find work at the shipyard and we work on Windspirit in-between. This means our recovery journey is taking a lot longer, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We plan to be back on the water in July but you know what they say about plans. It has been a year full of challenges but we know our sailing days will come again. To quote Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” The day is approaching when we will be sitting back on the deck of Windspirit sipping sundowners and laughing about our adventurous year and admiring the new home we made together.
DAYNA RUSSELL is a 47 year old ex Melbourne girl. Until she was 40 she had never sailed a boat in her life. She was a corporate woman raising two children on her own. When the kids grew up and she hit 40 Dayna left her six-figure job, sold her house and went sailing. In 2013, she sailed to the Louisiades in PNG and it changed her life forever. Since then she has given up the “norm” and now lives an alternative life with all its unexpected journeys. https://windspiritsjourneytorecovery.wordpress.com/
Jane Jarratt at Khalkis in the Evia Channel, east of mainland Greece.
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