Which Way To Heaven?
Posted by Robin Sparks on May 5th, 1999 | Email this to friend
Through Hell, High Water, and a Hurricane: the story of one couple’s perilous journey from New England to Belize August 1998 "Eight bells. As one watch ends, another begins," wrote 51-year old Richard Sugarman as he and wife, Linda, sailed out of Niantic, Connecticut, for Placencia, Belize. The 2500-mile journey symbolized for the couple the end of 20 years of dreaming and the beginning of a two-year trial run in the charter sailboat business. What they didn’t know was that the biggest storm to hit the Caribbean in 500 years would rearrange their plans — it would kill one of their dearest friends, nearly destroy their catamaran, and cause months-long delays and financial depletion. No one said moving to a third world country would be easy… (more…)