I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.