This week I present sailors and adventurers who know the importance of good boats, sails, and a captain and crew knowledgeable and wise. One guest has a cautionary tale of the blindness wrought by wealthy arrogance. All have confronted danger and still love the sea and find the natural world seductive and thrilling.

PETER NICHOLS-- His account, Sea Change, of sailing across the Atlantic to sort out his life and his novel Voyage to the North Star grip us with account of the sea and what fate has for us. 

KACI CRONKHITE -- She teaches women to sail out of Port Townsend and prepare for circumnavigation though she grew up on a ranch in Oklahoma. Her new book, Finding Pax, tells of her journey to find a wooden boat she loves. 

CAROL HASSE -- Her Port Townsend sail loft takes Dacron to shape the strong wings for sailors who hope to circumnavigate the globe. She also has a vision how to inspire young people to find the allure of the sea, as she was at 20. 

REDMOND O’HANLON -- The Oxford-based Natural Historian took to sea aboard a trawler. It was more terrifying than any other adventure. And yet he regaled is with astonishing, deftly hilarious accounts of the experience. Read Trawler for more than we had time to hear that day.

Production notes:  Peter was interviewed at the Plush Room in San Francisco, Kaci and Carol at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, and Redmond at the Exploratorium.

16,000 BBC sound effects in a public library are here.  The feature film mentioned is Kepler's Dream.  The nautical watercolor is by Alex.