The Man Who Loved Schooners

by Boudreau, Robert Louis

• ISBN13: 9781888671278
• ISBN10: 1888671270
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Tiller Publishing

Summary

He survived torpedos in WWII, started chartering a large schooner in Nova Scotia, pioneered the Caribbean charter trade, owning and sailing many great schooners. The Man Who Loved Schooners plots an exciting voyage across four decades of Boudreau's passion for sailing and schooners and his adventures under sail - from a confrontation with a 65-foot rogue wave to a fight with drug pirates in the Bahamas to an eerie encounter with a tiger shark to the onslaught of a vicious hurricane. Walter Boudreau's son, Robert Louis Boudreau, has chronicled the stories his father passed on to him.

Author Biography

Robert Louis Boudreau grew up in the Caribbean, became an avid spear-fisherman as well as a successful big game fisherman. Through hurricanes, an attempted drug hijacking in the Bahamas, and a shipboard fire during a storm off the African coast, he has led the adventurer's life. Swallowing the anchor in 1996, he returned to Canada where he devotes his time to writing. He lives in Chester, Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	iv
Introduction	v
Nova Scotia	1	(6)
The Angelus	7	(6)
The Gulf Stream	13	(6)
War at Sea	19	(6)
The Lonely Atlantic	25	(3)
Salvation	28	(3)
The City of New York	31	(10)
Labrador	41	(11)
On the Ice	52	(4)
Schooner Tales	56	(21)
Islands of the Trade Winds	77	(12)
The Caribbean Sea	89	(20)
The Voyage North	109	(18)
Mader's Brook	127	(5)
Peril on the Sea	132	(7)
Islands to Windward	139	(12)
Passages	151	(11)
Hurricane!	162	(6)
A Sailor Gone	168