Tripping Over the Ocean

An exciting addition to the always-short list of sailing fiction is Anne Millen''s Tripping Over the Ocean.

Aria Stihl, tough lawyer, keen sailor and blue-water dreamer, sees a delivery voyage as a step toward doing a single-handed ocean passage. With Oscar, the ''world''s best crew'', and two experienced sailors, she tries to avoid the usual problems of yacht deliveries and to make a quick and easy passage from Auckland to Suva. But she has taken on more than she expects, and by the end of the voyage, all their lives are changed.

Anne lived aboard for five years and wrote the popular memoir, More Than a Thousand Dawns, which told the story of her four-year circumnavigation of the world.