
Encore: My adventures on the high seas with a fugitive on the run
From Conversations
Published 6/11/2026

From Conversations
Published 6/11/2026
Marele Day is a novelist, but as a young woman looking for adventure, she hitchhiked on a catamaran sailing from Darwin to Sri Lanka.The skipper was a Frenchman, named Jean Day, who revealed on board that he had once done jail time for hijacking a plane.What she only found out later, was that Jean…