Greenlaw, Linda

The author returns to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village, the colorful inhabitants of the island, and the town's century-old conflict with a neighboring community.

Linda Greenlaw describes the challenges she faced moving home to a very small island off the Maine coast, after seventeen years as a swordboard captain, in an effort to reconnect with her parents, become a professional lobsterman, and hopefully find love.

The world's only female swordfishing captain offers a tale of a thirty-day voyage that must endure every hardship known to mariners.

Sea captain Linda Greenlaw tells the story of a grueling thirty-day swordfishing voyage during which she and her five-man crew encountered savage weather, equipment failure, and sharks, along with the routine work of operating a fishing boat; and discusses other aspects of her unusual career.