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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 was a fugitive on the run from another high-profile crime.

Further information

Marele Day's memoir is called Reckless

This episode of Conversations was first broadcast in 2023

The producer was Sinead Lee and the EP was Carmel Rooney

It explores sailing, risk taking, adventure, young women, the ocean, criminals, hijacking planes, deception, being French, lies, Sri Lanka, writing a memoir, high profile crime, financial fraud.

To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.