Now a couple from Hampshire are returning home today from around the world voyage.
It's taken them more than six years to complete it.
Amy Cartwright and Matt Humphreys used all their savings to buy 30 year old yacht after Matt was made redundant, giving them a dream trip with just a few nightmare moments along the way as Duncan Kennedy has been finding out.
Two people, six years, one world.
The Adventure of Several Lifetimes Amy Cartwright and Matt Humphreys partners for an epic voyage across the globe.
Today we are going to see Florence.
It all began in 2015 when Matt lost his job but found a dream.
They bought a 30 year old yacht called Florence.
Both had sailed inshore before, but they decided.
Go a little further.
And you didn't take very much persuaded.
I thought about it for about two seconds.
The first major leg was the Atlantic, an almost immediate disaster.
Last night we broke the boom, which is pretty major.
They limped to safety.
They yacht, but not their spirit broken.
Hey, Christmas.
Sailing didn't always mean skimping Christmas, one of Mellie's celebrations on route.
Their diet ranging from festive chickens to flying fish and a whole new range of skills to master just what was the scariest moment in in this whole voyage.
I think for me, when we were sailing along the coast of Colombia, when looking back at these waves that were so big behind the boat that I knew the they could roll us if we just got the boat wrong sideways across the wave.
I think that, for me, was the scariest point of the whole trip.
The battering of the waves meant an endless battle of maintenance both at sea and on land, all to keep Florence going.
Their route was not about speed but depth.
They wanted to see the world, not just sail past it.
It was meant to take about three years.
It ended up double that.
They didn't want to miss anything.
Absorbing cultures, places and people they fell hard for and found sad to leave.
Don't.
Cry.
Maybe we'll come back one day.
For other places, it was impossible to arrive.
Well, that's a first for us.
We've just been kicked out of the ports of bang in Bander Ache, Indonesia.
Customs officials refuse them entry because of COVID well.
A mess.
Leaving them at one point stranded on this desert island.
You are a couple, but there must be intentions along the way perhaps.
Many, many tense moments, and I think we've both had to work hard to learn how to deal with those.
There's only two doors on Florence, so if you slam either of them, you end up in a very small space and realize that it's probably a good idea to make up with the other person pretty quickly.
Their longer stretch at sea was 33 days and there were times it was overwhelming.
Yeah, last night I just wanted to give up.
They helped fund it all by posting videos on social media.
The Wilder the trips, the more the clicks.
Did you learn anything about yourselves and this epic voyage?
Yeah, it's been really, really good for us both to live.
It's a very simple life on a boat.
And yeah, I think that's been one of the best things.
Yeah.
If you're prepared to abandon everything else and put everything into going for that dream, it's unbelievable what is actually possible.
A dream that for now, ends with their arrival today in Portsmouth.
An oceanic odyssey for a couple taken.
By the seas Duncan Kennedy, BBC News fascinated by that discussion about what happens if you have a row on that six year trip around the world, he said.
There's not many doors to slam and you don't really get very far, so.
Sitting on this sofa for four hours, isn't it?
That's true.
There's no escape.