Ever wished you could pack it all in and sail off into sunset? This family did.

Martina Tyrrell and her husband packed in their jobs, bought a boat and with some trepidation, sailed off into the sunset with their young family.

ON Good Friday 2011, my husband and I decided to sell our house, quit our jobs, and buy a boat to live on with our two young daughters. Our biggest dilemma was breaking the news to our parents.

I come from the Bog of Allen, a mile outside Edenderry on the Kildare side of the border, about as culturally and psychologically removed from the sea as one could imagine.