Be Bold With Beth Whitman

Ladies! Please join our Be Bold Facebook Group! My conversation today is with Kauai resident Vicki Punter. Vicki is a sailor, adventurer and entrepreneur. She grew up in the midwest, left for the Caribbean after some brief work on the mainland and then took off on a boat to find adventure after the then-president of El Salvador mentioned wanting to sail around the world. Since that idea was planted, she figures that she and her husband, Captain Jim, have spent about 20 years on the water. Vicki is really unassuming. And I think much of that is because she grew up and spent the bulk of her travels in pre-internet times. But she really has lived a life of true adventure. She wasn’t blogging about it, she wasn’t posting on facebook or Instagram about it. She was just doing it. So in this conversation we talk about those years on the boat, her meeting local indigenous groups throughout the South Pacific and gathering up incredibly unique art which is now on display and for sale at her shop, Havaiki, on the north