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John Harries // Attainable Adventure Cruising

On the Wind Sailing

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The Importance of Luck in a Career

I think that you have to sort of luck is as much about putting yourself in a situation that opportunities arise. Let's take the example of Phyllis and I met, she had never sailed sail on a boat before. It will make a long story short. She took, I'd single handed up from the Caribbean was bound for Maine but didn't want to single hand that part because of the traffic. And since then she sailed,. I don't know, 50,000 miles and, you know, crossed the Atlantic three times and being to Greenland and done all kinds of things that she wouldn't have been able to do without grasping that, making that single decision.

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