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48 Days to Barbados
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $22.99
ISBN13: 9781967038350
Publisher: Red Fern Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1999, experienced sailor Karson Brown was in her late twenties, married, and searching for something she couldn't quite name when she got the call she'd been dreaming of her whole life - a chance to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. The plan seemed straightforward: Brown and her best friend would join Captain Pam, whom they'd never met, in Portugal and help her sail her thirty-four-foot boat Voyager to Florida as part of an all-female crew.
What happened next drove Brown to the edge of her physical, mental, and emotional limits as the Atlantic began dismantling, piece by piece, every certainty she had brought aboard.
In 48 Days to Barbados, a seemingly routine sailboat delivery becomes five weeks of shifting itineraries, a failed engine, contaminated water, dwindling provisions, and no clear way home as Hurricane Lenny threatens from afar. Yet the greatest uncertainty lived within Brown herself. Far from her Seattle home and confined with two women she was only beginning to understand, Brown was forced to confront the fractures in her marriage, the complicated legacy of her mother, and the deep longing she finally allowed herself to recognize.
Told with candor, humor, and reverence for the sea, 48 Days to Barbados is a memoir of a lifelong Pacific Northwest sailor confronted by extreme nautical circumstances who survives by learning to trust her inner voice and the ocean she has profoundly loved since childhood.
This book will release Oct. 20, 2026. Learn more at redfernpress.com.
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