Guardian

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Tom Hand, back from a summer at sea aboard a sea scalloper, chooses to drop football and join the fledgling UMass crew team. His father, bitterly disappointed, struggles with gambling debts, drinking, and poor work performance. When Tom's grandfather, Phil Swenson, who has been helping the new crew coach around the boathouse, is gravely injured, Tom's parents turn to an inexperienced financial advisor. Without Phil's strong presence the family starts to come apart....

Charlie Sheldon studied at Yale University and the University ofMassachusetts, where he received a Master's Degree in WildlifeBiology and Resource Management. He then went to sea as acommercial fisherman off New England, fishing for cod, haddock, hake, lobster, red crab, squid, and swordfish. He spent 28 yearsworking for seaports (New York, Seattle, and Bellingham, WA) asa project and construction manager and later as an executive, including habitat cleanup projects and working with Puget SoundTribes to reduce tribal fishing conflicts. Later he returned to sea, shipping out with the Sailor's Union of the Pacific as an OrdinarySeaman, Able Bodied Seaman, and Bosun. His last gig was asbosun aboard USNS Shughart, New Orleans to New York, in 2016.Always a writer, he published Fat Chance with Felony and MayhemPress in 2005. He began working on ideas for Strong Heart, Adrift, and Totem, his talesabout the Olympic Mountains, the Pacific coast, and humanorigins long, long ago and began serious research in 2010. Thesedays he hikes in the Olympics whenever he can, cooks for his wife, and continues to write tales in Tacoma, Washington.