Collisions with heavy tankers, Force Ten storms on the Gulf of Tehuantepec and ultimately: an on-board romance that has flourished to this day! Our latest podcast episode features the remarkable wife and husband team; Lisa and "Fo'c'sle" Jim Nelson, who met as crew aboard The Golden Hinde... Discover the astonishing stories of their remarkable ocean voyage: with thrilling action, hilarious situations, danger, excitement.... And a real-life love story for the ages! 

Jim and Lisa Nelson met as deckhands aboard Golden Hinde in Los Angeles in 1988 and were with the Hinde for her last transit of the Panama Canal. Lisa was originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and became a sailor in the San Francisco Bay area, where she joined the ship. Jim was born and raised in Maine and moved to L.A. to attend film school at UCLA. After leaving the Hinde and working on various other traditional sailing ships they were married in 1993, and the following year Jim began a new career as a writer. They returned to Maine and have lived there for twenty-three years where they raised their four children. Jim (who publishes under his proper name James L. Nelson) is the author of more than twenty-five works of maritime fiction and nonfiction.

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