78 PostCard from Leonie by ginny ware


Carl and Ginny in Capri


LIVING in a coffin shaped yacht that’s a mere eight- and-a-half foot wide at its widest point and 36-foot long isn’t everybody’s cup of tea but it floats our boat because it gives us the freedom to travel and seek adventure.


I still find it astonishing we managed to sail all the way


from Dartmouth to Greece in our little wooden yacht Leonie. It’s given us a great sense of achievement and I feel more alive than I have ever felt thanks to our nomadic seafaring gypsy life. Along the way we have experienced frightening stormy seas and long, boring passages; spent hours at the helm shivering and soaked to the skin, countless more hours trying to fix an engine that was beyond repair, gone crazy with cabin fever when heavy rains have left us stuck inside for days, survived on a shoestring budget and been rescued by the Italian Coastguard. But we have also sailed to amazing places, met


interesting people, experienced different cultures, joyfully sailed alongside jumping dolphins, soaked up the sun in fantastic


locations, swum in crystal clear Mediterranean waters and felt the exhilarating wind in our sails as we headed for new and undiscovered shores. Some people we’ve met on our


voyage think we are rich because we own a yacht. That would be great if it were true, but it’s not. Our boat is our home, our one and only home. We own it outright and worked hard to be able to afford it. It’s worth a fraction of a ‘proper’ home and is tiny in comparison. Keeping it in good condition


Taking Leonie through the French waterways Leonie at anchor in the beautiful Koloura Bay, Corfu


Leonie at anchor in the River Dart


Our first boat Karenette


Ginny at the helm heading for Giglio, Italy


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