Pembrokeshire features in a unique story of four daughters growing up afloat, and crewing around the south coast of the UK, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Daughters of the Sea published by Troubador tells the story of The Griffin daughters who grew up to love the freedom of the sea learning their art from an early age.

Author Geraldine Griffin learned to navigate by the stars and to maintain the traditional sails and rigging.

Milford Haven features in the book where they bought their boat Totland.

Defying the disbelief of friends and colleagues, Geraldine’s parents decided to bring up their family on board a sailing boat, determined to turn their seafaring dream into reality.

In 1946 her father was given six months to live and invalided from the Royal Navy. Yet, gradually, with the help of friends and the generosity of strangers, dreams became reality.

The Griffin daughters grew up to love the freedom of the sea learning their art from an early age.

In 1965 women, let alone girls, were rarely considered as competent crew, yet they couldn’t have been more ready as they set off across the Atlantic.

Sailing the family’s sturdy 50ft ketch with “Captain Cook’s instruments along Christopher Columbus’s route”, there was no satnav, no telephone, no self-steering device, just a compass, sextant, paper charts, ample provisions and 100 gallons of water.

This memoir is a saga of delights, lazy sailing days, mid-Atlantic swims and celebrations; of adversity, storms and disaster. It delivers a unique story, one of optimism and resilience.

Geraldine explained: “This is a wholly unique story of daughters growing up afloat (from conception to marriage) and crewing around the south coast of the UK, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.”