Memoirs of an Old Fart

<p>What do you get when you cross a Navy diver a newsroom junkie a sailing captain a family man and a stubbornly unapologetic old fart? You get this book a life lived at full throttle told with grit humor and zero sugarcoating. From small-town beginnings to high-school brawls in Utah from the claustrophobic silence of submarines during Vietnam to the chaos of Miami's cocaine-cowboy era newsrooms from cross-country road trips at 150 miles an hour to Bahamian waters where boy scouts learned to scrub decks and tie knots under his command-these are the stories of a man who refused to live life in half-measure. Part coming-of-age odyssey part war story part newsroom confession and part sailing log Memoirs of an Old Fart takes readers on a wild ride across decades and oceans. Along the way are brushes with danger love loss pets both ordinary and absurd (including a rattlesnake a seagull and an iguana named Captain Jack) and more than a few wrong turns that somehow led to the right places. Witty irreverent and always brutally honest this isn't a book about being perfect. It's a book about rolling the dice grabbing the wheel hoisting the sails and yelling what a ride!-even when the landing is less than graceful. If you've ever wondered what it's like to live a life full of speed saltwater ink-stained fingers and a few questionable decisions pull up a chair. The Old Fart has a story for you.</p>