Tag: Jutta Townes

For Love and the Sea

Cover of For Love and the Sea by Jutta Townes. A snapshot of the author as a young woman is features on a background of swirling ocean waves, with a map of the world above the title.

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. They sail the eastern coasts of Australia, Africa and South America and the oceans […]