Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea

Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea
Aug 02, 2018
Janis Couvreux
Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea
Janis Lasky Couvreux is an award-winning writer, journalist, Franco-American, lover of languages, travel and adventure addict, sailor, mom, and grandmom. Formerly a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, Janis has blogged for the Huffington Post, Pryme Magazine, and The Lady Alliance, about living bilingually, crossing oceans, backpacking adventures, and raising kids outside the box. Janis has also written travel and wine-related articles for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vintage Magazine and has been published in Luna Luna Magazine, Longreads, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. She won the first place Adult Nonfiction award at the 2017 San Francisco Writers Conference.
Her book, Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea, published in October 2017, is her adventure memoir about living and sailing 10 years on a sailboat with her husband and two small boys from France to
San Francisco. Well before she put her story down on paper, both Time and Life magazines featured the Couvreux family's adventure, mid-voyage, in the 1980s.
She now lives in Petaluma with her French husband, a dog, a cat, five sheep, and a flock of chickens, but is never far from the next travel adventure.
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