To read excerpts from the books I have written, please click on the titles listed below. If you would like to purchase any of the books, you can link to my bookseller here, or from the excerpt page.

The Sons of the Waves:

One friend called this my 'tale of the sea.' I should make the following clarification: parts of the story take place on the sea, but it is an adventure on land, too. It is the tale of a boy's passage to manhood and of his father's acknowledgment and blessing of that passage. It's also the story of a family broken by divorce and mended, in part, by the strength of its sons. There are passages in the account that are best understood by sailors, especially square-rigger sailors; but for landsmen, those passages should be regarded in the way of 'atmosphere' and should not be worried over too much.

Slavery haunts us all. It still exists in the world, in many forms, both societal and personal. It still needs to be combated, on land and sea, in our hearts and minds. Young Wil-Wesley has the unique privilege of fighting piracy, slavery, and the cruelty of his past on a movie set in Mexico, aboard a replica Royal Navy frigate in the Celebes Sea, and in the jungle on the Horn of Borneo. Swords, pistols, cannons, and audacity are his weapons. 'Quick's the word and sharp's the action.' (Capt. Jack Aubrey)

Finding Peter Vincent:

This is a requiem in three summers. One reader described it as 'Funny, sad, beautiful.' Some lives, and some deaths, we never quite get over; and some we shouldn't.

The Family Regatta:

There may be a sequel to this volume, if I ever get around to reading my old log books. During my 18 years as her skipper, Naniloa made summer cruises in the Salish Sea and the Strait of Georgia. Before that, as 'The Turkey,' she was 'fabled in story and song' from San Pedro to Ensenada. This is the life of that quaint little ship, and snippets from my family's life sailing her.