Adrift on a Sea of Blue by Peter Muilenburg

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Muilenburg was born in 1945, grew up in China and the Philippines, went to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, went to jail in Mississippi, went to ground in the Islands, and went to sea whenever he could. He is grateful to his wife, proud of his two sons and happy in his friends.

INTRODUCTION
Way back in 1968, a young couple with hippie tendencies arrived, fresh from college and the tumult of the times, at the little West Indian island of St. John. They lived on the beach and when their money ran out they got teaching jobs and bought a boat to live on, and in so doing cast themselves onto the currents of the great oceanic drift that bathes the West Indies and circles the North Atlantic.

She was a gifted teacher, and if she had her way would have stayed at her school on St. John. But her husband wanted to sail, and he carried her away on their boat, first a 28-foot in which they crisscrossed the caribbean, then in the 42-foot gaff-rigged ketch he built on a St. John beach.

In that boat, Breath they made two round trip voyages to the Mediterranean and West Africa, as well as numerous voyages between North and South America. One doesn't put that many miles under the keel without some remarkable encounters and close calls.

These became the captains yarns, which he first told to his charter guests back on St. John, then published in various magazines. The locales range from a cold mountaintop in the Azores to the cactus flats on Bonaire; from the muddy delta of the Gambia River to the transparent waters of the las Aves Reef. These are sea stories, filled with a feel for St. John, the West Indies, and the wondrous sea in which they are set.

Hurricane, shipwreck and treasure lie within these pages, as do smugglers, snorkelers, drunks, donkeys, a feisty little sea-going dog, a Holocaust survivor, a kleptomaniac cat, turtles in trouble, a sailor searching out past lives, a family seeking the admiral's silver, a father praying for his son to make it through the night, and much more.

While each chapter can be read independently, the tales are arranged in chronological order and form a narrative of a way of life spent upon the great North Atlantic drift--adrift but not without direction.

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