a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them
Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas. Their journey aboard the fifty-five-foot catamaran, the Emerald Jane, would have many extraordinary and profound moments but John's dream trip that began on Long Island Sound ended badly almost two years later. In a nightmare of treacherous waters, off a remote atoll in French Polynesia, the ocean dealt the Emerald Jane a death blow in an explosion of awesome violence and the Silverwoods just barely survived the ordeal.
