About Scott Neuman

I grew up around boats on Lake Erie and have been secretly nurturing the dream of an extended sailing voyage since boyhood, when I was enthralled by stories of the great explorers and inspired by teenage circumnavigator Robin Lee Graham.



In the early 2000s, while living and working as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, I began racing beach catamarans and then bought a locally built 28' sloop. During an attempted delivery of the vessel to Thailand in 2005, a fellow sailor and I were caught out in Typhoon Kai Tak in the South China Sea. After dismasting in a knockdown, we managed to make our way unassisted to the coast of Vietnam. Regrettably though, the boat was a loss.

In 2007, I left my job as an editor at The Associated Press in Bangkok to work for NPR in D.C. In the process, I purchased Symbiosis, a Tayana 37, to live aboard on the Magothy River in Severna Park, Md. For the past several years, my wife Noi and I have been preparing Symbiosis for new adventures after the boat, formerly known as Argonauta, completed a five-year round-the-world with previous owners.