Giving up work to sail around the world

Kellie Pollock © Kellie Pollock, CNN

In the months leading up to our move onto the boat, packages of sushi kits, metal plates and cups kept turning up on the front door step and my husband kept disappearing into the tupperware section at the supermarket.

He was yacht nesting. As this ever-growing pile of indestructible apparatus grew, I started experiencing cravings for slow cooked meals.

Every Saturday afternoon was spent in the kitchen with recipe books, ingredients, chopping boards, pots, pans, bowls and utensils spread across three bench tops, four hotplates, an oven and a grill as we cooked chicken pie, lamb shanks, beef wellington and paella.

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