BIOGRAPHY

 Journey Of The Snow Goose chronicles the spiritual and physical sojourn of Barbary and Bill

            Chaapel,   who leave land and everything land represents behind them to sail away in a tiny

            sailboat  7 1/2 years; To leave the known  luxury of home, career, friends and family for the vast

            and deep unknown, sailing long and hard on the wind, sea-salted eyes searching for glimpse of

            land. For slowed moments together, challenging their hearts to grow. In the year

            before they left Cleveland they read and studied every book on heavy

            weather sailing, navigation, tides and currents the Cuyahoga County Library

           system had to offer. Although they knew how to pour oil on troubled waters,

           trail a sea anchor in a storm, nothing prepared them for the solitude of two,

           anchoring off an isolated far-away island. Years ago, with the precision of

           sailors' tools and compass rose, fate already had charted their course.

           Barbary Chaapel was born in the mountains of West Virginia and moved to the

           shore of Lake Erie in Painesville, Ohio.   She is the author of the award winning

           No Name Harbor, Poetry of Barbary Chaapel.