'Does the sea frighten you? Your boat is very small. Do you know your friends well? Are they good at sailing?' Jack, his wife Tonya, and his friends Max and Sasha want to sail from England to Australia. They have a lot of money and they don't want to work any more - they want an exciting life. And it is exciting for them. And at first everything is easy. But an exciting life can also be a dangerous life. The sea is not always a friendly place - and when you need help, you need good friends and a lot of luck...

On the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub-women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building. A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows. Robbins, fifty, something of an overweight beau, and addicted to first nights and hotel palm-rooms, pretended to be envious of his partner's commuter's joys...