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Boris and Shirley had not been sailors before they set out on their South Pacific voyage of discovery. Adapting to life at sea was a series of challenges to their endurance, their resolve, and their ingenuity.

The Kings had to learn how to lay in provisions and ration supplies, particularly their drinking water. They had to learn how to keep clean. (Hint: for a salt-water bath, use shampoo. Regular soap gets too sticky.) They learned the art of deep-sea fishing, and Boris learned to navigate the trackless ocean by celestial sightings and by "dead reckoning," essentially a cumulative record of the speed and direction of each day's sail. Everyone had to take turns watching the helm 24 hours a day.

There were battles with seasickness and claustrophobia as well. But life at sea was Boris and Shirley's dream, and nothing, nothing was going to take it away from them.