1911tex
Sustaining Member
“On The Hard Wind” an autobiography by Russ Hofvendahl. When he was 15, the late 1930’s in San Francisco, he got the wild hair to skip school, and hire onto a merchant ship and visit ports around the world for a better education. He lied about his age, hired on without taking the time to discover the ship or its itinerary. Turns out it had no ports of call…S.F. 5 months at sea, back to S.F. It turned out to be the last of the old wooden large 4 mast sailing fishing vessels going to the Bering Sea to fish for Cod. He left a boy and returned a man….to say the least….he kept a diary and learned a hard life from hard people plus the experience of the last of the large 1890’s sailing ships.