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A Hole In The Ocean

by Ron Palmer

178 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-1862; ISBN 1-4251-0105-4; US$17.39, C$20.00, EUR14.29, £10.00

A single-handed circum navigation that ends in disaster.

In the folk law of the boating community a boat is said to be a hole in the ocean into which one forever throws money.

The author was born in 1933 in Bridlington, a fishing and resort town on the east coast of Yorkshire. At an early age he became interested in a career at sea, taking every opportunity to go out with the local fishermen. 1948 found him enrolled at the Boulevard High School for Nautical Training at Kingston upon Hull. On completing his schooling in 1950, Palmer went to sea as an apprentice deck officer, working up through each stage of navigating officer to retire as captain of supertankers in 1985. He now lives on Pender Island, BC. Canada.

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