For Love and the Sea

At 18, Jutta Townes leaves her German coal-mining town and migrates to Australia. She meets a lanky Australian engineer with a yen to sail around the world, and together they buy a traditional wooden yacht and grab adventure with both hands.
The newlyweds sail up the Australian coast and across the Indian Ocean to Kenya, around the Cape of Good Hope to Rio, then up to Miami. A year in Germany, then with a new boat, and a new baby, they travel down the Danube through the Eastern Bloc countries to Istanbul and beyond.

For Love and the Sea is a memoir of discovery, fellowship, and moments of sublime beauty as well as sheer terror. It’s also the story of a young woman finding her way through adulthood and marriage. Townes writes vividly of travel before GPS and satellite communications and explores what it means to grow up, come to terms with the past, and look forward to the future with an adventurous heart.