CHANGING TIDES

by Jeff Gardner

It’s the ultimate male fantasy! Buy a sleek, sexy boat and sail away from the drudgery, the boredom and the mid-life doldrums to a world of adventure on the high seas. And Jeff Gardner did it! Jeff bought a gorgeous fifty-one-foot cutter, designed by Robert Perry, that had clean decks and a perfect teak wood staved interior that only the Taiwanese know how to build. He christened it Changing Tides and left his successful public relations business and troubled marriage for the cruising life in the Caribbean, partying with locals as well as social nobility like Jimmy Buffett and Caroline Kennedy. Eight years later in Panama, having survived hurricanes on the high seas, the romance and treachery of assorted women sailing companions, a scramble for weapons as pirates seemed to surround him, and adventures most of us can only dream about, he found himself being savagely beaten to death by intruders in a twist of events he could never have imagined. This is his true story.

162 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 25, 2010