Pierre Van Rooyen

Husband and wife authors, Pierre and Faith Van Rooyen, work from their boat.

When their two children grew up and left home, Faith and Pierre decided to leave home too.

They didn't have much money, but sold everything they had and bought an old wreck of a sail boat.

It took them a thousand hours of work each over a year to fix the boat.

Then they went to sea and that's where they have been ever since. They live aboard.

Their adventures have taken them to such exotic places as Zanzibar, Tanga, Mombassa, Kilifi, Madagascar, Seychelles, Chagos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Borneo and Philippines.

Faith writes and illustrates her eight volume non-fiction Sailing With Senta series.

Pierre has written three novels, two of them adult novels featuring children.

He co-authors the non-fiction Sailing With Senta series but only in a secondary role.