Yachting Monthly 0shares Confined to quarters during the pandemic, many sailors are itching to slip their lines and sail for the sun. Elaine Bunting explains exactly how to break free and sail across the Atlantic and back If your dream is sailing off into the sunset, making it a reality could be easier than you think How to sail across the Atlantic and back Just as the island of Hiddensee drew across the wake of the boat, Malin Andersson took up her camera and shot a video. When she looks at it now, a late summer scene from the Baltic coast of Germany, she remembers it as the instant she knew for certain she was right to think of leaving work to go cruising.