| The opposite of being chained to your desk must be | | | | looking for, or a boat that even a beginner can |
| manhandling the wheel of your beautiful white yacht | | | | master if you're not after much more than a leisurely |
| sailing the seven seas. Even if most days you like | | | | bob round the islands. 'Skipper' sounds an appealing |
| your job, you're still trapped in that one space, | | | | title to adopt doesn't it. |
| between the same four walls, glancing, like taking tiny | | | | Like the fresh, salt sprinkled air, a yacht sailing trip |
| sips, out the window, instead of drunk on the | | | | reeks of freedom, even a jaunt down the canal on |
| freedom of space and the potentially ever changing | | | | the way to the sea equals time to yourself and |
| vista of the great open highways of the sea. Yacht | | | | progress at your own pace in a way that few other |
| sailing must be the antidote to work. | | | | journeys can match. It's a holiday from everything |
| Aboard your yacht, sailing around Cape Horn perhaps, | | | | but history and the great outdoors. |
| along spectacular, ancient coastlines, or hopping from | | | | I've always wanted my own yacht, not a metal boat |
| tropical island to tropical island whilst sailing in French | | | | with an outboard motor like my Dad's but a big white |
| Polynesia, spending the afternoons resting on the | | | | yacht with sails that billow, and ropes I have to tie in |
| deck of your yacht. Then sailing between reef | | | | special knots. I dream of yacht sailing from pretty |
| channels, and into beautiful ports, where you spend | | | | island port to pretty island port, gorging on the health |
| the evenings comparing notes with the other free | | | | giving properties of a fisherman's diet of fish, waves, |
| spirits. | | | | ocean air and patience. From postcard perfect |
| That was a rather romantic way to imagine yacht | | | | Polynesian seas of bright blue to the vividly evoked |
| sailing, but there's a long tradition behind the idea of | | | | storms of Turner's greens and greys, it's the |
| boats being the harbingers of humanity's true | | | | unpredictable nature of sailing the ocean that I fancy, |
| freedom. I think the passion for travel that's | | | | the drama of it. Following the ocean courses that |
| burgeoned into the collective belly in the last few | | | | early explorers forged; like sailing around Cape Horn. |
| generations is just an extension of yacht lust. You | | | | Roads so reliably finish somewhere, making a road |
| don't have to be a sea dog to be caught up in the | | | | trip a bit of a foregone conclusion, but the ocean |
| dream of yacht sailing, there are companies that will | | | | potentially stretches to the shore and it could easily |
| provide you with a crew if it's adventure you're | | | | turn out not to be the shore you're expecting. |