Salt in the Blood av Patrick Dixon, Sheila Dixon

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¿<i>Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas ¿ what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.</i>¿Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife Sheila was a magistrate ¿ high-pressure careers that demanded long hours away from their home, family and passion for sailing. It is a frustrating story many occasional sailors can relate to, but unlike most, Patrick and Sheila realised early enough that they could only bend so far before something snapped, they could only take on so much before they drowned.This is their story of how they made changes (some more challenging than others) that they knows other sailors could make too, regardless of where they are at the moment ¿ how they changed their priorities but managed to sustain a new career that fitted in around life rather than the other way round.It is a