CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 This Kid Was No Saint

Chapter 2 Birth Of A Love Story

Chapter 3 Death On A Desolate Coast

Chapter 4 The Trial

Chapter 5 Two Beauty Queens

Chapter 6 The Christening

Chapter 7 Goodbye Glitzy California

Chapter 8 Close Call

Chapter 9 Cabo San Lucas

Chapter 10 Laid Back In Frailes

Chapter 11 Pretty Girls And Pollution

Chapter 12 Up The River

Chapter 13 Sky Snake

Chapter 14 Choosing Offshore Crew

Chapter 15 Beyond Vallarta

Chapter 16 The Model And The Beer Commercial

Chapter 17 Hurting The One You Love

Chapter 18 Pacific Crossing-Outward Bound

Chapter 19 Pacific Knockdown

Chapter 20 A Letter Home

Chapter 21 Problem In The Night

Chapter 22 Crossing Guard At The Equator

Chapter 23 Flare

Chapter 24 Poof Goes The Generator

Chapter 25 Nuka Hiva—We Made It!

Chapter 26 Beverly Hills Greg

Chapter 27 Tuamotus—The Danger Islands

Chapter 28 Into A Storm

Chapter 29 Reunion In Tahiti

Chapter 30 Marcia—The Not So Merry Mermaid

Chapter 31 Moorea Club Med

Chapter 32 Ancient Shrines And Overpriced Wine

Chapter 33 Bora Bora

Chapter 34 Unleashed Fury At The OA OA

Chapter 35 Yachts Throw A Party

Chapter 36 Rarotonga—Anguish And Delight

Chapter 37 Deserted “Savage Island”

Chapter 38 International Date Line

Chapter 39 Fiji Joe

Chapter 40 A Military Coup

Chapter 41 Child Thief In An Inner Tube

Chapter 42 Dead One Hundred Days

Chapter 43 Aground

Chapter 44 Mike Lands An Unknown Species

Chapter 45 Lightning Across The Tasman Sea

Epilogue

Glossary