A memoir about my husband and my 13,000-mile journey throughout the South Pacific over a 14-month period, aboard on our 40-foot sailboat, Impunity.
Sailing with Impunity covers a 14-month, 13,000-mile adventure with Mary and Bruce Trimble from Seattle to legendary South Pacific Islands and home again. From magical sights and scents of their first tropical island landfall to the bustling, colorful Tahitian markets. From sudden midnight squalls and weathering a cyclone in Samoa to pristine anchorages in the Kingdom of Tonga. The memoir frankly discusses the hardships and joys of offshore cruising with only two people aboard their 40-foot sailboat, Impunity.
Published in print and ebook formats.
Excerpt
“…on deck, Bruce slipped on his life line and harness, glanced at the compass to confirm our course, watched the raucous seas for a moment, noting streaking foam atop the 10- to 12-foot waves, and looked up to survey the already reduced mainsail. He stepped to the upper deck and eased the halyard. Leaning against the boom to free both hands, he pulled the mainsail down, preparing to take in another reef.
I stayed in the cockpit to handle the coiled halyard. I heard a loud bang, a noise I hadn’t heard before, and looked up. “Bruce, what was that? Bruce!”
No answer. He wasn’t there. I let out a garbled scream. My worst nightmare! Bruce had fallen over-board! The boat surged ahead as my mind whirled with what I must do.”
Professional Reviews
What Readers Are Saying:
“If you’re one of the millions of people who have dreamed of casting off everyday cares and setting sail for the South Pacific in your own sailboat, this is the book for you! Mary and Bruce Trimble did what so many wish they could do. Her story will fire your imagination and fuel your fantasies. Their real-life adventure will make you wonder what you’ve been waiting for.”
—Robert H. Mottram, author of In Search of America’s Heartbeat: Twelve Months on the Road, and other books.
What Readers Are Saying:
Reading Sailing with Impunity slapped my limited sailing experience into proper perspective. I had no idea what it meant to really sail or to truly be a sailor until reading this beautiful and often chilling memoir of a couples’ unforgettable South Seas adventure. If you read nothing else this year, read this!
—Mary Ann Hayes, author of Adeline and other books
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