Windhaven: A survival at Sea Adventure

by David Burton

Noah Wells is a last minute replacement crew member on a 70 foot sailboat set to race nonstop around the world.

All goes well until they are well East of New Zealand in the inhospitable Southern Ocean. A Rouge Wave turns an exciting race into a race for survival.

The huge wave hits Windhaven, taking all their communications, rendering the engine inoperable, and taking several of the crew. Noah and “Iron Lady” Leigh Tag, though injured, fight for days to keep Windhaven afloat. Once the storm has passed, they work for months through crisis after crisis, performing medical procedures they are untrained for to reach South America thousands of miles away.

During their months at sea one thing prevents Noah from giving up – Quinn, a woman he met the night before he left. As cliché as it sounded to him, she was the One. He had to survive to see her again. Quinn felt the same way about him, until she thought she didn’t.

Despite what they’ve been through, the surviving crew have been through too much to believe they are safe. Still, they refuse to leave Windhaven until she sinks or is safely tied up to shore.

Paperback

First published March 13, 2023

About the author

David Burton is an American writer living in sunny Southern California. He traveled by motorcycle through Mexico, US, Canada and Alaska. From motorcycles he turned to the ocean, building and sailing his own boats to Mexico, Tahiti, Hawaii, and through the Panama Canal to Florida. He spent a lot of time reading while on the water, so he decided to write books he would have wanted to read at sea.

Having swallowed the anchor he now mops floors and collects trash for money, writes for a living, and has become a (temporarily?) unrequited sailor.

He can be contacted at dcburtonjr@gmail.com