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    The Tahiti Syndrome-Hawaiian Style

    By Andrew Gunson

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    The author, accompanied by his family and friends, undertakes a seven thousand mile, deep sea voyage across a great watery wilderness. A personal journey where he explores his successes and failures, his life, love and family in an effort to answer the question man has been asking himself from time immemorial........... Is there meaning to my life?

    Candidly written and heartfelt, this sailing adventure travelogue is full of fascinating nautical titbits and astute philosophical ramblings augmented with insightful and memorable quotes from historical travel writers and adventurers of the past. If you have ever dreamed of sailing over the horizon to live the life of a cruising vagabond, join as vicarious crew, Andrew and Janet Gunson aboard the sailing vessel Maiatla for their latest Naked Canadian Adventure and voyage into Oceania.
    Commander R.H. Fairwood RNR RD (Retired)

    Facing Pacific gales, hungry sharks and an ocean of mind-numbing immensity are all preferable to staying ashore to deal with the “mindless automatons of the insipid netherworld.” Insightful and often funny as the author grapples with his tenacious and sometimes uncooperative teenage daughter. The Tahiti Syndrome is a physical as well as a metaphysical journey through life and love as encountered from the heaving deck of a 52 foot ketch, the S.V. Maiatla II.
    The Bay City Cruisers Association.

    This is Book #2 in the Naked Canadian Cruising Series by Andrew W. Gunson

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Gunson
    Release dateNov 21, 2012
    ISBN9781301492107
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    The Tahiti Syndrome-Hawaiian Style
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    Andrew Gunson

    About the Author The author is a storyteller with the heart of an adventurer; he has the ability to infect others with his zeal for life and his love of the sea. Andrew Gunson grew up in and around boats on the Great Lakes and always dreamed of following the paths of such intrepid sailors as Joshua Slocum and Eric and Susan Hiscock. A Canadian National sailing champion at fourteen, he raced aboard some of the fastest yachts then afloat, competing against the very best at the World Championship level. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the West Coast of Canada and discovered a completely new world of sailing; leaving the hi-tech racing yachts behind, he began to follow his dream of becoming a ‘cruiser’. Together with his father, he purchased his first cruising sailboat, a Columbia 36’ and never looked back. Although a fourth generation mason, Andrew’s adventurous spirit led him to attend the College of Oceaneering in Wilmington, California. By age twenty-one, he was a Commercial Bell Diver working on oil-drilling ships in the Beaufort Sea, eventually becoming a co-pilot in the submersible program aboard a Norwegian drill ship working beneath the frigid waters of the Davis Strait, off the coast of Labrador. Before his thirtieth birthday, he retired from commercial diving to focus on raising his young family. With his wife Janet, they purchased and operated a convenience store in Vernon, BC. After selling the business, Andrew obtained his securities license and became a personal financial analyst and small business tax consultant. Andrew’s love affair with the sea endured. He continued to dream, just waiting for his own chance to sail off. After surviving a brush with deadly skin cancer, a pair of automobile accidents, one of which almost claimed Andrew’s life, not to mention being accidentally shot while bear hunting, the couple decided it was time to stop dreaming and start planning their escape before it was too late. Hence, the saga of the sailing vessel Maiatla II and the Naked Canadian began.

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