A TEENAGER ALONE ON HIGH SEAS
Oriana inched away from the dock, snapping streamers and breaking bonds. I stayed on deck in the fading light, watching our wake, all the way down The Solent and into the Channel, excited about the voyage to come, and places due to enter my viewfinder. But a few hours later, when we hit a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay, I was no longer thinking of exhilarating settings. ....