A first mate who found love with her captain on board a yacht on the high seas have told how they swapped their cabin for life in a converted Mercedes van - slashing their monthly outgoings to just £250. Anchored in Tahiti, French Polynesia, when global lockdowns were imposed in March, Maggie Kerr, 28, and Anna Strang, 30, had a "nightmare in paradise" as they waited for international flights to be reinstated, so they could return to the UK.