Runaway to Tahiti

Rodger is a sexagenarian suffering from tuberculosis. After his doctor gives him less than a year to live Roger decides to fulfill a life-long fantasy of purchasing a sailboat and sailing to Tahiti but is fearful that his wife and three grown sons will interfere.</p>In his secretive search for just the right sailboat that he can single-hand for the trip he answers a newspaper advertisement for a thirty-foot Tahiti ketch. Much to his surprise he discovers the owner to be a widow whose sailing partner her husband died the previous year. Because she has no one to sail with she reluctantly decides to sell the <I>Sea Witch</I>. While showing the boat to Rodger she realizes that he is determined to learn but has no hands-on sailing experience.</p>Because Helen is lonely loves to sail and is maybe a little bit desperate herself for companionship and a sailing adventure she offers to skipper the boat for him and teach him to be a sailor. Rodger becomes first mate and experiences the greatest adventure of all as he and Helen embark on their runaway journey to Tahiti.</p>