Book Review: Leading Minds by Howard Gardner with Emma Laskin
Why Every Captain Who’s Serious About the Job Should Read This Book.
Book Review: In Peril by Capt. Skip Strong and Twain Braden
A real-world masterclass in maritime leadership, risk management, and ethical command. In Peril remains one of my favorite books and a top recommendation for anyone who wants to understand what real leadership underway looks like, especially when the stakes are high and there’s no perfect playbook. The book follows Capt. Skip Strong, a young steamship […]
BOOK REVIEW: Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
Reflections from a Captain, a Scholar, and a Fellow Mariner Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is more than a book. It’s a reckoning. This deeply researched and powerfully written account of the loss of the El Faro and her crew of 33 American mariners is one of the most important sea stories of our […]
Book Review: Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G. Bruce Knecht
Reviewed by Captain Kent In Hooked, G. Bruce Knecht drops us into the cold, chaotic waters of the Southern Ocean, where a ragtag crew of poachers aboard the Viarsa 1 are on the run—4,000 miles of cat-and-mouse with Australian fisheries officers hot on their wake. The target? The elusive and lucrative Patagonian toothfish—rebranded for fine […]
Book Review: Dead Men Tapping by Kate Yeomans
The true story of a preventable tragedy at sea — and the lives that were lost in the waiting. In the early hours of September 5, 1996, the fishing vessel Heather Lynne II was struck and capsized by a tugboat and its 272-foot barge off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. What followed was a nightmare. Trapped beneath […]
Book Review: The Confessions of a Rum-Runner by Eric Sherbrooke Walker
A Captain’s Take on a Classic Smuggling Tale I knew I was in for a good read when I hit the first chapter and found out that Walker’s career in rum-running started at a nautical training center for captains. As the owner of a legitimate training facility for the past 20+ years, I had to […]
