Talk about living the dream. Eric Arthur was 62 years old, retired, financially secure and, for the past four years, sailing carefree around the Mediterranean on his catamaran.

In December, the lifelong sailor who grew up in Los Angeles embarked on what became his greatest adventure. It began with a crossing of the Atlantic. He had bought his 48-foot catamaran in Greece and gave it his own nickname, the Tambo, a mashup of the 1980s movie characters the Terminator and Rambo.

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