You will be challenged and inspired as you join Neville on board for this real-life, white-knuckle adventure within the high seas. A magnificent accounts of courage and perseverance as a doctor does take time off from his occupied practice to sail a 31′ yacht (single-handed a lot of just how) from England to New Zealand.

• Mutiny by his staff in Slot St Louis, France

• Confrontation using the Sicilian Mafia at Marsala

• Collision with a freighter close to Gabo Isle, South Australia

• Harassed with a UFO about Doumar and the physician: THE REAL Story of a Courageous Adventurer mid-ocean in the Tasman sea?

Neville de Villiers comes from an aristocratic lineage of French Huguenot extraction. He completed his studies at Oxford School in 1959 and used as a doctor in Loughborough, UK for 11 years before purchasing the Doumar, a 31′ sloop, and sailed it to New Zealand. Following the Doumar experienced logged 14,000 kilometers, he finally tangled up at Marsden Stage wharf, Whangarei in 1981. He worked well like a GP for several practices and then create his very own, Ruakaka Medical Centre, until retiring in 2014. He today lives at One Tree Point but still sails the Doumar to this day.

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” Having gone through this ordeal, he recognised of himself that he felt mentally and physically better equipped to cope with the difficulties into the future. Neville found sea sailing an severe challenge, and yet he owns Doumar to this day and sails her as regularly as he’s able within the strategies and outer reaches from the Whangarei Harbour. This tale is perfect for the ardent reader who wants to feel the joy and the misery to be at ocean in a small motorboat.” -Simon Bliss