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CHAPTER 1
Houston, Texas
CHAPTER 2
Kemah, Texas
CHAPTER 3
Kemah, Texas
CHAPTER 4
Galveston, Texas
CHAPTER 5
Seabrook, Texas
CHAPTER 6
Seabrook, Texas
CHAPTER 7
At Sea - Gulf of Mexico
CHAPTER 8
At Sea - Gulf of Mexico
CHAPTER 9
At Sea - Gulf of Mexico
CHAPTER 10
At Sea - Gulf of Mexico
CHAPTER 11
Port Fourchon, Louisiana
CHAPTER 12
Cut Off, Louisiana
CHAPTER 13
Cut Off, Louisiana
CHAPTER 14
Cut Off, Louisiana
CHAPTER 15
Houma, Louisiana
CHAPTER 16
Houma, Louisiana
CHAPTER 17
Houma, Louisiana
QUOTATIONS ABOUT BOATS & THE SEA
and other things...
- Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.
I don't know who called them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
The perfection of a yacht's beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty's sake.
The approaching storm turns the surface of the sea to steel and silver. Only danger reflects clearly from such a mirror.
The pleasures of being becalmed had been worn threadbare; there is a limit to untutored stargazing.
The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet.
Each boat seems to contain a personality which manifests itself in the way she takes a sea.
They were all fine sailing days, but unfortunately they were ideal only for sailing in the wrong direction.
It is remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
The sea hates a coward.
Up that rigging, you monkeys. Break out those sails and let them fill with the wind to carry us all to freedom.
The water was as unfathomable as the black holes between the stars at night.
- Never a ship sails out of the bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway.
I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency.
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
"We all live under the same sky. We just don't all have the same horizon."
Admiral Adenhaur