Sailing the Inside Passage to Alaska: A practical guide to sailing the inside passage - Paperback

by Robb Keystone (Author)

A practical guide to Sailing the Inside Passage to Alaska. Glacier Bay, Tracy Arm, Juneau, the Broughton Islands, Barranof Warm Springs, Sitka, Anke, and Anan Nature Preserv

Author Biography

Through Antioch College, I worked as a Scrub Nurse at the Metropolitan General Hospital of Cleveland Ohio, where we treated more gunshot wounds than Harlem every Friday night. During my third year of college, my roommate got a bit paranoid and decided to flee the USA. What can I say? He was Physics major so I didn't understand most of what he talked about. He did explain that he had bought all the materials and plans to build a sailboat but it would take too long so he was leaving by air for Norway in the morning and I could have it all for one dollar. I paid up instantly. So it was once again, I was touched by the hand of the Baby Jesus. I did the only sensible thing, and dropped out of college to start construction. I built a Brown 42 foot SeaRunner Trimaran in one year-Sailed her down to South America from San Francisco and then through the Panama Canal to the Caribbean. Upon returning to the USA I looked at my resume. It was not pretty. I took the only job that was available to someone with my talents...I worked as a Beaver Wrangler or Wild Animal Trainer for a Walt Disney affiliate. Later I worked as a contractor and builder of eclectic million dollar custom homes. We built the unbuildable...spiral houses, boat shaped houses, and houses made of rain barrels. We built a Japanese house for a Hollywood movie producer. I learned Hollywood was wonderful and horrible at the same time. After seven years, I fled Hollywood for the Northwest and ended up in Seattle. There, I entered into the computer business and went on to build computer Infrastructure for Amazon.com and Zillow.com. In my spare time I became a painter of scantily clad women. Boats, women and building things- That's my story-