Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue -- The course of the Sea Hawk (map).
Summary:
With bills piling up and her lobster traps not supplying enough income, the author accepts a captaincy on a friend's boat for a season of swordfishing. Set against the backdrop of the Grand Banks, her journey is full of surprises that even she, an experienced sailor, could not have predicted.
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