A true story of a whirlwind, midlife romance and two lovers' pursuit of a life of adventure on the high seas, Dark Wind tells the tale of a catastrophic sailing journey author Gordon Chaplin and his partner, Susan Atkinson, undertook across the Pacific Ocean. Chaplin's brutally honest accounting of the idyllic sailing escapade that ended in tragedy when the couple decided to ride out a typhoon rather than abandon ship is powerful and moving.
