Seaworthy
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The bestselling leader’s sequel to The Hungry Ocean–a quick- paced account of her return to swordfishing
Linda Greenlaw hadn’t been bluewater fishing for ten years- not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean-but when her lobster traps aren’t paying off, her truck is on its last gasp, and the bills are strut up, she decides to take a friend up on his offer and captain a boat for a season of swordfishing. A decade older, and with family tree responsibilities, she’s a different person heading out to sea, but any reluctance is quickly tempered by the magnetic lure of adventure. And the adventures start nearly immediately: The ship turns out to be rusty and very ancient, and even with a crew of four Greenlaw is faced with technical challenges. There are the expected complexities of longline fishing and the nuances of reading the weather. Her greatest challenge, but, comes when the boat’s lines inadvertently drift into Canadian waters and Greenlaw is thrown in jail.
Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, Greenlaw tells a tale about human scenery and the scenery around us, about learning what can be controlled and when to let fate step in. Seaworthy is a compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her right self between land and water.
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Fantastic reading. A small too much sailor profanity but still very excellent reading. The leader sounds like a person you want to get to know better.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Another excellent one from Linda Greenlaw. If you like tales of the sea, welcome aboard. She can really tell a tale, and her fishing companions are well drawn. Her descriptions are usually lively, although sometimes too detailed for nonfisherfolk like me, and she can keep the suspense going.
I give this four stars mostly because there’s a difference between writing that is plain and writing that is Bulwer-Lytton dreadful, and occasionally she sails over the line (with no indication that she’s engaged in parody). This is especially so at the beginning of some chapters. “Darkness waded in cautiously and headed west. Hesitating waist-deep, then plunging into the murky chill, the diving night splashed light onto the opposite horizon, which swam like spawning salmon up the riverlike sky. The sun hatched as if it were a baby chick, pecking from within the shell until fully risen….” And my favorite: “Ripe and one sliver shy of full, the cantaloupe moon shone a flashlight beam along our path as we steamed east through the Gulf of Maine.” Block that metaphor!
Such quibbles aside, “Seaworthy” is a excellent read. I have read all Greenlaw’s books except the cookbook she wrote with her mother, and find her “right” tales the best. There’s a reason for persons quotes, though. Was she really as innocent of misconduct as she claims? By the end, I was not reasonably convinced. And after all, she has already told us that all fishermen are liars.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Another great swordfishing boat from Ms. Greenlaw> Finished it in 3 days, now I’m ready for the next one. Linda Greenlaw, I know where you went with Archie. Another book should be ongoing. I personally have momentously loved Ms. Greenlaw’s writings since “The Hungry Ocean”. Since reading Sebastian Jungr’s “The Perfect Storm” I’ve been hooked on her writings. I envision Linda’s volumes to be place in a collection, a bound volume or collection of fishing tales. I guess the fisherman in me keeps me permanently interested. Her writing style keeps one unable to place the book down for long. I cen’t give much away about it. There are many people who would be intersted in this book. Whether a hard bound book, an audio volume, or a kindle version, please dont miss the chance. If your a fan of her writings, dont get behind by missing this. There are highs and lows, excellent weather, terrible weather, excellent fidshing, terrible fishing. Also she acknowledges clearly that no fishers are atheists, even if it takes a near death storm to elicit fishermen’s prayers.
The Canadian Maritime Authoritires; Ripped her off. Check it out, you’ll see.
Thanks for another fantastic one.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Linda Greenlaw has been called one of the best captains on the entire east coast; beyond that she is also one of the most appealing authors. She is the only female sword boat captain and gained her fame from the book and movie `The Perfect Storm’.
With her most recent book she tells of returning to sword fishing in a to some extent questionable boat. She spends much time musing on her aging and how different she is than on her last trip out to the open sea. She also questions herself, and attitudes, but proves worthy of the challenges on a problem laden voyage. She is even arrested by Canadian authorities for illegal fishing in their waters. Some have questioned whether it was done intentionally to get publicity for this upcoming manuscript. In my opinion – no, but read and judge for yourself.
Her explanations of commercial fishing and seamanship, effective on an ocean going fishing boat are technical, but clarified well enough that nearly any landlubber could know and be interested in. She tells of the fascinating habits of the swordfish and their monogamous life – so much so that at times a mate will follow a partner who has died on the hook to the surface, in what seems like a suicidal gesture.
This is a novel that tells of excellent ancient fashioned work and values, the call of the sea and a challenge to some extent akin to gambling, except with these adventures you are gambling with your life and persons of your crew.
Her books are permanently a treat. Persons who delight in the sea, fishing or simply a excellent adventure tale would indeed delight in this and her additional books.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
By age 47 Linda Greenlaw had led a life that by any counts would seem like two lifetimes to the average person. Average is something Greenlaw is not. Made the only female captain of a swordfishing boat at age 24, she retains that status and has earned the accolade from Sebastian Junger, leader of THE PERFECT STORM, in which she is featured as “one of the best captains, period, on the entire east coast.” She was 29 in 1991 as she and her crew set out for the Grand Banks in the face of one of the deadliest winter storms in history that caught her and her companion boats in the deadly North Atlantic. She never could have dreamed that nearly 20 years later, she would find herself in a completely different kind of adventure — one of a officially authorized scenery — when she hit the sea.
Greenlaw had nonstop deep water fishing until 1997, but the scarcity of swordfish in the North Atlantic forced fishermen to seek alternative income sources, so she bought her own boat and turned to lobstering. This brought about a more land-based life, so she bought a home off the coast of Maine on tiny Isle au Haut and took a foster daughter under her wing. In her spare time she wrote five books, two of them arresting the New York Times bestseller lists. Between setting and carrying lobster traps and family tree responsibilities, she traveled on book tours and made personal appearances. After 10 years, she started to hear the siren call of deep water fishing as newly minted rules governing the once free-for-all deep water fishing industry brought about a resurgence of the Atlantic swordfish population. This wily predator, whose only natural underwater enemy was the shark, had fought its way back, and its human hunters were returning to the North Banks in search of this well loved delicacy and formidable challenger to their skills.
By then, Greenlaw’s world was safe, silent, predictable, even humdrum, so when an ancient friend who owned a fleet of boats called to say, “I need a swordfish captain for this season, Linda. Will you do it?” she caved. With small time to hire a crew and re-fit the Sea Hawk to make it seaworthy, they were soon headed for the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. Within three weeks, she establish herself being escorted by the Canadian Coast Guard to a Newfoundland port, booked and placed behind bars, wondering if perhaps she might have selected more adventure than she had bargained for.
The title of the book, SEAWORTHY, applies equally to Greenlaw and to the creaking boat Sea Hawk. She knew she was a small out of shape, because the difference between carrying lobster traps off the Maine coast and setting 40 miles of lines in the stormy North Atlantic brought that fact home immediately. She quickly restored her skills and was fit and sound within a few days. The Sea Hawk was not. Soon to buy a much less romantic, non-nautical name by her motley but hardworking crew, the bucket of rusty parts and wheezing engines tempted nearly all of them to jump ship each time they pulled into a port for repairs. Only Greenlaw’s newfound maturity, pit-bull tenacity, and the sense of humor of her first mate kept them on board for the huge prize — a payload of swordfish.
SEAWORTHY finds Greenlaw at a philosophical point in her life. This introspective examination of her own result to the near disasters that beset her and her crew surprises her as she recalls how she would have acted in her younger, more fiery years as a sea captain. She realized, with each new snafu, that she had mellowed in her nearly 30 years at sea, yet her fierce drive to overcome the fundamentals and the setbacks heightened the company and loyalty between her and her crew. Her awareness and appreciation of her prey has been heightened, too, by the years.
SEAWORTHY is laced with Greenlaw’s own special agility with words, spinning tales of the joys, beauty and terrors that await any deep water fisherman, whether for sport or for a living. Even if your fishing experience is limited to hanging a line over the side of a row boat, or trekking along a mountain stream, the thrill of that tug on the line, that breaking of the surface of a sinewy, battling fish, is brought vividly to life.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5