Charlie Doane // The Boy Who Fell to Shore

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

#375. Writer & sailor Charlie Doane returns to the show (ep. #269) to talk about his new book 'The Boy Who Fell To Shore.' Charlie tells the story of how Thomas Thor Tangvald went from a seagoing vagabond during an oceanic childhood to disappearing at sea in 2014. During a long chat in Annapolis after boat show last week, Charlie recounted to Andy how he discovered the story, his process for researching & writing it, and what he thinks really happened to Thomas after his disappearance.

From the publisher: "Cast ashore into regular contact with human society for the first time at age 15, this intellectually gifted and uniquely educated young man at first reveled in his new environment but ultimately was led by his trauma into spirals of addiction and broken relationships. Thomas hasn't been seen since he sailed away from French Guiana in 2014, and some believe he must still be alive."

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0:00.0	But the story of Thomas, this is more recent. And this, this, it feels like a story that would have
0:07.2	happened way long ago, right? Like these old boats, you know, the, just kind of fly by the
0:13.0	seat of your pants. And like from my perspective, I'm always looking at things. What can we learn from this?
0:22.8	Whatever. But this feels like one of those stories. You don't have to think about that.
0:25.6	It's just a captivating story. Yeah, it's drama. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:30.7	Greetings friends. Welcome back to another episode of On the Wind. I'm your host, Andy Schell.
0:35.2	I am recording this back in Pennsylvania after a wild and
0:38.3	crazy boat show week in Annapolis. It was awesome to see everybody that was there. And aside from
0:45.3	August, who was on parental leave in Norway, we had the whole 59 North team there. So really thanks,
0:51.3	really big thanks to everybody that came out and saw us at the Harborburn
0:54.1	Cannon Booths, who came to our two-day ocean sailing seminar on seamanship that me, Nikki,
1:01.1	and me and Emma ran.
1:03.1	Big thanks to Pam Wall for coming up to see us and all the friends new and old that we met
1:07.4	through the week.
1:08.5	Speaking of the seamanship workshop, if you missed us this year in 2022, we have already
1:13.9	booked the same venue for 2023.
1:16.6	So we're going to be back at Ramshead on the Wednesday and Thursday of the week of
1:21.7	Annapolis Sailboat Show.
1:22.5	I think it's October 11th and 12th next year.
1:24.8	We've opened up pre-booking online on the website.
1:28.1	You'll find it right on the homepage or under the events tab or go to 59-north.com slash seamanship. We're going to have
1:34.8	more or less the same program as this year, but we're refining it and going to make it even better
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