"Waterborne" is the story of an artist, an engineer and a Labrador--three entirely different personalities--who abandon a stable middle-age lifestyle for a pitching deck and the possibility of pirates. Challenged by culture clashes, gear failure and sudden storms, their story is as much a sea saga as travel memoir, celebrating the interior as well as exterior journey and the joys of an inquisitive engagement with the world--a timely subject in today's climate of increasing tribalism.