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Life Begins at Seventy

Life Begins at Seventy 


Author Frederick Harsant always believed that nothing is impossible. To prove his point, four years before he retired he and his wife Joan began to hand-build a boat, Blue Pearl. This painstaking task took them nine years, during which time they moved house, self-built a garage block at their new home, and project-managed the conversion of their new house into two flats, not to mention a busy social life and voluntary work into the bargain. All this would be enough to make people half their age feel exhausted, but the Harsants' story was only just beginning.

Life Begins at Seventy: The Story of Blue Pearl is the amazing and inspiring true story of Frederick and Joan's post-retirement sailing life, covering 9,000 miles and visiting France, Spain, Gibraltar, Corsica, Malta, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus. Their many adventures are recounted here in fascinating detail, drawing on Joan's diaries and Blue Pearl's logs to bring a modern Odyssey and the quirky international sailing community to life. Retirement certainly wasn't the end of the story for the Harsants, but the start of the next challenge - and Blue Pearl was their dream companion.

This story will appeal to those who have retired or are about to retire, to amateur boat builders and to all those with a sense of adventure.

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Author Fredick Harsant
ISBN 9781846242335
Cover Type Hardback
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Publication Date 26/6/2008
Author Biography
Price: £17.99

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