Seaworthy : a swordboat captain returns to the sea / Linda Greenlaw.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2010Description: 242 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN: 9780670021925 :; 067002192X :Subject(s): Greenlaw, Linda, 1960- | Commercial fishing -- Grand Banks of Newfoundland | Commercial fishing -- Grand Banks of Newfoundland -- Biography | Seafaring life | Sea Hawk (Fishing boat) | Grand Banks of Newfoundland -- Description and travelDDC classification: 639.2/778 | B LOC classification: SH691.S8 | G6895 2010
Contents:
Summary: Recounts how the financially strapped author accepted a job captaining a swordfishing boat, a voyage marked by the challenges of the vessel's poor condition, bad weather, and an inadvertent arrest.
The call -- The crew -- Outward bound -- Things fall apart -- Adrift -- Water, water, everywhere -- Let's catch fish -- Setting out, at last -- The Grand Banks bubble -- Busted -- Legal affairs -- Back to business -- Shipping seas.
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The call -- The crew -- Outward bound -- Things fall apart -- Adrift -- Water, water, everywhere -- Let's catch fish -- Setting out, at last -- The Grand Banks bubble -- Busted -- Legal affairs -- Back to business -- Shipping seas.
Recounts how the financially strapped author accepted a job captaining a swordfishing boat, a voyage marked by the challenges of the vessel's poor condition, bad weather, and an inadvertent arrest.
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