'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...
(original text open source ) I have read this story in my teen years in a popular magazine for parents in the USSR (Семья и Школа, School and Family). The section was named ‘Foreign Literature’. Now the Russian translation of this story can be found on the internet. It is done (highly likely) with an online translator and is really awful. I made my own translation referring to the scan of the original one. I also tried in my comments to analyze how the translator, Olga Varshaver, in 1985 adapted the text to make it understandable for her readers who were Soviet parents and teachers...