The dream becomes a nightmare

By Alan Pascoe

Below is an extract from the article "Living The Dream' that was published in the April 2023 issue of AHOY Sailing News. www.issuu.com/downunderrally

With any frontier-type location, it can all go wrong, and it did. Sometime around midnight, our alarm went off, indicating movement inside our vessel, I reached over to see if my partner Yanina had inadvertently triggered the alarm, and in that instant, I knew we had been boarded.

After some 130,000nm and 15 years living aboard our sailing vessel Screensaver, we have experienced everything from some of the world's best cruising along with the good, the bad and the ugly.

Papua New Guinea, is arguably one of the last frontiers and, as such, has some of the remotest places, some of the oldest traditions still being used, the least technologically advanced, some of the nicest un-spoilt people & places, along with risks of a wild frontier. Having been to PNG three times before, this trip would take us straight down the east coast of PNG, through the Louisiade’s and onto Australia.

Read the full account of the circumstances that led to this incident and what the author, Alan Pascoe, believes with the benefit of hindsight, he could have done differently in the April 2023 issue of AHOY Sailing at www. issuu.com/downunderrally