The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey

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The time period fisherwoman does now not precisely roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the sector’s best feminine swordfish boat captain, is not flattered whilst other folks insist on calling her one. “I’m a lady. I’m a fisherman. . . . I’m really not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If the rest, I’m a thirty-seven-yr-vintage tomboy. It is a phrase I’ve by no means outgrown.”

Greenlaw additionally occurs to be some of the a hit fishermen within the Grand Banks industrial fleet, regardless that till the e-newsletter of Sebastian Junger’s The Best possible Storm, “no person cared.” Greenlaw’s boat, the Hannah Boden, was once the sister send to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared within the mom of all storms in 1991 and become the focal point of Junger’s ebook.

The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw’s account of a monthlong swordfishing commute over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the tale of what occurs whilst issues pass proper–proving, within the procedure, that each and every a hit voyage is a observe in narrowly prevented crisis. There’s the elements, the consistent risk of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling 5 sleep-, ladies-, and booze-disadvantaged younger fishermen in shut quarters, to not point out the specter of a foul fishing run: “If we do not trap fish, we do not receives a commission, length. Briefly, there’s no exertions union.”

Greenlaw’s easy, uncluttered prose underscores the characteristics that make her a just right captain, without reference to gender: equity, bodily and psychological staying power, obsessive consideration to element. However, in the long run, Greenlaw proves that the affection of fishing–in all of its grueling, separating, suspenseful glory–is an issue of the guts and blood, now not the thoughts. “I knew that the sea had tales to inform me, all I had to do was once pay attention.” –Svenja Soldovieri
The time period fisherwoman does now not precisely roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the sector’s best feminine swordfish boat captain, is not flattered whilst other folks insist on calling her one. “I’m a lady. I’m a fisherman… I’m really not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If the rest, I’m a thirty-seven-yr-vintage tomboy. It is a phrase I’ve by no means outgrown.” Greenlaw additionally occurs to be some of the a hit fishermen within the Grand Banks industrial fleet, regardless that till the e-newsletter of Sebastian Junger’s The Best possible Storm, “no person cared.” Greenlaw’s boat, the Hannah Boden, was once the sister send to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared within the mom of all storms in 1991 and become the focal point of Junger’s ebook. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw’s account of a monthlong swordfishing commute over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the tale of what occurs whilst issues pass proper–proving, within the procedure, that each and every a hit voyage is a observe in narrowly prevented crisis.

There’s the elements, the consistent risk of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling 5 sleep-, ladies-, and booze-disadvantaged younger fishermen in shut quarters, to not point out the specter of a foul fishing run: “If we do not trap fish, we do not receives a commission, length. Briefly, there’s no exertions union.” Greenlaw’s easy, uncluttered prose underscores the characteristics that make her a just right captain, without reference to gender: equity, bodily and psychological staying power, obsessive consideration to element. However, in the long run, Greenlaw proves that the affection of fishing–in all of its grueling, separating, suspenseful glory–is an issue of the guts and blood, now not the thoughts. “I knew that the sea had tales to inform me, all I had to do was once pay attention.” –Svenja Soldovieri
ISBN13: 9780786864515
Situation: New
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