I gave up normal life to live on boat with man I’d never met – it was magic until dangerous reality of life at sea hit [Video]

A WOMAN has shared how she escaped the “London rat race” to live on a boat with a man she’d never met – but it wasn’t plain sailing.

Emma Bamford, 31, revealed that she felt “incredibly vulnerable” at times while out at sea.

The sailor once had to be on the lookout for Somali pirates after reports came in that an American couple had been killed following a shootout between the pirates and the US Navy.

Emma also recalled the time when they were forced to sail without one of their rudders.

The ex-news editor decided to leave her job and head for a life on the ocean after reading about others who had done …