Ruby Anderson

And so Glenn fires up the engine and steers the yacht out of the harbor.

As a dad, he tries to strike a balance between emboldening Ruby to be adventurous and providing a voice of caution.

It's a line that he's had to learn to walk in his own life.

Glenn grew up in a suburb of Perth in Western Australia, where he spent a happy childhood surfing and sailing.

At 18, he went to university to study sports science with ambitions of becoming a PE teacher.

But his social life quickly took precedence over his academics, and he dropped out of university after a couple of years.

After dropping out of university, Glenn decided to join the Western Australian Police Academy and graduated as an officer at the age of 20.

There were aspects of the job that suited Glenn, but after a few years in the force, the cons began to outweigh the pros.

of end up like that down the track glenn quit the police force went back to university and retrained as a teacher only to go on to start a landscaping business around this time glenn met and married ruby's mum they moved to the town of margaret river a beach resort three hours south of perth the marriage didn't last but the pair remained on good terms

After the divorce, Glenn settled in the nearby town of Busselton, where, after yet another pivot, he took a teaching job at the local high school.

Throughout Glenn's various life and career changes, one thing has remained constant, his passion for being on the ocean.

He goes sailing as often as he can, usually gliding around Busselton Harbour in his 11-metre yacht Impala II.

But what he loves more than anything is taking his boat up the coast to Ningaloo, a stretch of shoreline in Australia's far northwest, famed for its clear tropical waters and dazzling marine life.

A few months ago, Glenn asked Ruby if she fancied making the 750-mile voyage up the coast with him to Ningaloo.

The father-daughter pair have made several shorter trips in the past and Ruby has shown enough desire and aptitude to suggest that she is ready for something a bit more ambitious.

After getting approval from his ex-wife, Glenn welcomed Ruby into the crew.

Alongside father and daughter is a guy called Dane, a 32-year-old sailor friend of Glenn's.

A few days ago, the three of them set sail from Busselton before picking up two additional crew members in Perth.

A pair of young women who responded enthusiastically to an ad Glenn posted on Facebook.

Last but not least, there is Banja, Ruby's nine-month-old puppy who has come along for the ride.