British old couple sailed 36 years around the world over 45 countries

Couples and their third cooper ship "distant date"

Cooper couple married in 1952, her husband bill was a royal navy

Cooper couple drive their second ship "and" the number "traveled to Europe.

The first ship "farewell," 1977 years driving in Spain waters.

Confucius News network to Britain in department report, British an old couple in the boat travel around the world and finally returned to their homeland after landing, ready to an old lady. The old couple in 36 years were sailing almost 160000 kilometers, through 45 countries and seven seas, have faced up to seven meters high waves and winds reaching 160 kilometers of the storm threat. However, these mixed bittersweet experience never so that they gave up for sailing the pursuit of living and love.

Her husband bill cooper was a British royal navy officer, after retiring from army have served as a national debt agent and government adviser, work content is not interesting, but the future is bright. However, one day in 1974, when the bill went on the way to work in, he suddenly for their future get confused.

"Each day, I'm repeating the same job, cope with the hypocrisy and complex relationships. I think this is not I want to life, I came to this world should go to experience more life." Bill recalled. "so, I called my wife's LaoLei, let her tell my partner, I won't go back to work."

In the next two years, bill and LaoLei couples with great concentration, began to build a ship to belong to his own boat. Bill is responsible for all of a carpenter, and is responsible for all LaoLei's paint job. In 1976, their first ship "farewell," finally finished building. The couple sold his six bedroom villa, the estate to daughter Shelley and son Benedict, then had to say goodbye to all the relatives and friends, on the dream of maritime exploration journey, to Spain waters start.

In the next ten years, they against bill navy pension and sell the right of partnership money, driving "farewell," from the Mediterranean Sea through the Atlantic ocean to the east coast, and drift along the coast from New York to Florida, and then traveled to the Caribbean sea. In 1982, their boats in the north of Bermuda in terrible tornadoes but fortunately in peace. The disaster as the only a ship didn't accept relief but successful escape ships, cooper couples still have got a medal.

In 1986, the bill and LaoLei bought a ship's old industrial transporters, slightly rebounded transformation called "and then the number. In the next 20 years, they drive "and" the number "traveled to Europe, via France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, and past the beauty of the Aegean sea. Period, they also will be regularly come back, back to England with his family for Christmas, but back 30 years of sailing career, the couple enjoy the most with them in the boat or the time spent on the trip and meet all those people and seen intoxicate scenery.

With increased age, bill and LaoLei's physical and health conditions have not as good as before. So in 2005 they changed a ship 12 meters long boat, and named it far away, "ready to sail. However, in their drive "far away, on the way to north Africa its maiden voyage, bill suddenly had macular degeneration eye disease. So they had to anchor recuperate in France.

Now, the 83-year-old husband and a 82-year-old wife has returned to Britain's hometown. Bill says regretfully: "I know that this perfect life won't last forever. I think it should give us life at drawing to a full stop. I'm going to write a book, record I and LaoLei's 36 years life on the sea."