Events
2025 Events
Feb 26-May 30, 2025 "Environmental Communication" course with Sea Education Association, Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Semester, Woods Hole; voyage from Aotearoa New Zealand to Tahiti; Gump Station (UC Berkeley) in Tahiti
March 5, 2025 Sailing Alone at the SEAS Morris Sailing School, Morris, NJ (Zoom-in), 8:00 pm
March 6, 2025 Sailing Alone at the Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, CT, presentation, discussion, and signing, 6:30 pm, books provided by The Curious Cat Bookstore
March 7, 2025 Sailing Alone at the City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY, presentation, discussion, and signing, 7:30 pm
March 9, 2025 Sailing Alone at the Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY, presentation, discussion, and signing, 6:00 pm; books provided by J Anderson's Books.
March 21, 2025 Launch of German edition of Sailing Alone (Mare), translated by Rudolph Mast
March 29, 2025 Docent Talk: "The Marine Mammals of Pigeon Point: Basic ID and Human Historical Relationships," Pigeon Point State Park, 11:00 AM
April 17, 2025 "Solo Sailors as Travel Writers," Drew University Travel Writing Class, Zoom visit, 1:15 ET
June 17, 2025 Brooke Grasberger delivers co-written paper "Tracking the Birds of Mardi in a Time of Crisis in the Central Pacific," Oceanic Melville International Conference, UConn Avery Point
June 19, 2025 Sailing Alone, Newt Clarke Book Club, Brunswick, ME, Zoom, 7:30 ET
July 7-July 25, 2025 "The Central Pacific: Marine Conservation and Environmental Communication," high school/pre college 3-week seminar, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole: online course, international students welcomed!
Sept. 23, 2025 "Whales, Whaling, and Marine Environmental History on the Central Coast," Half Moon Bay History Association, Half Moon Bay Library, 6:00-7:30 pm
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2024 Events
Jan-May, 2024 "Marine Environmental History" course at the Middlebury College California Coast and Climate Change Semester and for the Environmental Management and Policy MA program in Monterey, CA
Feb 26, 28, 2024 College Preparatory School Intraterm, journaling/art/story-telling at Elkhorn Slough and Año Nuevo State Park
April 5, 2024 "The Story of the Filipino American Sailor Florentino Das: Told by Himself, Told by the Novelist-journalist Nick Joaquin, and Told (And Ignored) by His Communities" at the Stories and the Sea Conference at the Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, CA
May 21, 2024 Launch of American edition of Sailing Alone (Viking)
May 22, 2024 Sailing Alone on Bloomsberg Businessweek Radio/Podcast, with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovech, 4:20 ET
May 29, 2024 Sailing Alone at Sausalito Books by the Bay, 6:00 pm, Sausalito, CA
May 30, 2024 Wild Geese Bookshop Wine Tasting/Summer Read Preview, featuring Sailing Alone, Franklin, IA
June 24, 2024 Sailing Alone, in conversation with Steve Jones, Palmer's Provisions and Bank Square Books, 6:00 pm, Noank, CT
June 25, 2024 Sailing Alone at Titcomb's Bookshop, 6:30 pm, East Sandwich, MA
July 25, 2024 Sailing Alone local launch at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 7pm, Santa Cruz, CA
Aug 26-Nov. 23, 2024 "Environmental Communication" course with Sea Education Association, fall semesters, "Coral Reef Conservation: Caribbean" and "Oceans and Climate," Woods Hole, MA (students will then go to sea in the Southwestern Pacific and in the field to reefs throughout the Caribbean)
Sept 5, 2024 Sailing Alone at The Herreshoff Marine Museum, 7:00 pm, Bristol, RI
Sept 10, 2024 Sailing Alone with Rob Hakala, WATD Radio, 07:40 am, Marshfield, MA
Sept 10, 2024 Sailing Alone at The Provincetown Bookshop, 4:00 pm, Provincetown, RI, in collaboration with Tommy Tucker and the Center for Coastal Studies
Sept 21, 2024, Whale watch with College Prep (Berkeley) literature class, Monterey, CA
Oct 17, 2024 Ahab's Rolling Sea discussion, "What Is Nature: Intro to Environmental Studies" class, Northeastern University, Zoom-in, Boston, MA
Oct 17, 2024 Drew University Writer's Series, reading and discussion, 3:00 pm, Madison, NJ
Oct 19, 2024 Sailing Alone at Morristown Festival of Books, signing and discussion with Professor Jens Lloyd, 3:40, Morristown, NJ
Oct 23, 2024 Interview on Sailing Alone, etc. with John Arndt and Latitude 38, for the podcast Good Jibes.