About the author Richard Byhre: I was raised on the waterfront in Washington's Puget Sound and soon became a sailor. In my youth I campaigned on several racing sloops on San Francisco Bay. In my later youth I have turned to wandering the oceans of the world with my bride Bonnie Lee. Five years, almost to the date of this story, my wife and I revisited Niau fo'ou and our friends there while completing a circumnavigation aboard our 36ft sloop, Windsong. I am a retired Electrical Engineer from California's silcon valley.