No Return Ticket - Leg One

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Christened Jasper Morgan Rowland III, Skips first trip outside the womb was to the Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club, where he was re-named Skip - appropriate for the newest member of generations of sailors. After graduating college and serving in the United States Marine Corps Skip co-founded a California manufacturers rep company. Representing the 69 cent wonder tube Krazy Glue changed Skip's life. He chucked the business world at age 46 to wander the globe aboard his 43 foot yacht 'Endymion.' The author moved ashore in Thailand where he created Adventure Island Entertainment, a company that built the first up-market miniature golf parks in both Thailand and Guangzhou, China. Relocating to Canada Skip built and operated A Snug Harbor Inn in the village of Ucluelet on Vancouver Island's rugged west coast. Home for Skip is now in the mountains of British Columbia, far from the oceans he so loved. Here he and his former crew-mate and now beloved wife, coast through their senior years, content in the knowledge they have touched all the bases. Skip is an award winning journalist and a sought after speaker.

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Captain Skip Rowland shares his gripping true story of the theft and subsequent torching of his beloved sailboat on a desolate Mexican shore. After personally catching the thieves he later escapes the captivating allure of California's glitzy lifestyle to sail his new 43 foot Endymion through the jaw dropping beauty of the South Pacific to Australia. This however is no ordinary voyage. Endymion is knocked down in the mid Pacific, nearly sliced in half by a vagabond freighter, grounded on a coral reef and survives the most severe weather in over 100 years crossing the Tasman sea. Courage, love, faith, bravado, and endurance are all in this openly honest memoir about the value-and cost-of resurrecting old dreams and living them out despite the risks. Rowland's authentic voice will have you believing you are on deck as romance of the seas meets the reality of the journey.