what was the reason behind the voyage the narrator had undertaken and who kept his company on wavewalker - English - We\re Not Afraid to Die...if We Can All Be Together

Question

what was the reason behind the voyage the narrator had
undertaken and who kept his company on wavewalker

Amrapali · Accepted Answer

In July 1976, the narrator, wife Mary, son Jonathan, 6 and daughter
Suzanne, 7 set sail from Plymouth, England, to duplicate the round-
the-world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook They
had dreamt of sailing in the wake of the famous explorer They had
been preparing for the past 16 years, spending all their leisure
time honing their seafaring skills in British waters in lieu of
their round the world voyage Their boat, the Wavewalker, was a 23
metre, 30 ton wooden-hulled beauty which had been professionally
built and they had spent months fitting it out and testing it in
the roughest weather possible The family also took on two crewmen,
American Larry Vigil and Swiss Herb Seigler to help them tackle one
of the world's roughest seas,the southern Indian Ocean