Chasing The Horizon: The Life And Times Of A Modern Sea Gypsy

NEW EDITION 2008 - including lots of photos!Chasing the Horizon is a delightfully demented Celebration of A Way of Life. It is an outrageously funny, often touching, and continuously shocking tale of a modern sea gypsy. Cap'n Fatty's story is too bizarre to be fiction. Father wears floral skirts; mother is a tad vague. Sister Carole isn't interested in her millionaire suitor; she's too busy smooching with the kid in the cesspool truck. Their strange live-aboard boat caravan includes Mort the Mortician, Backwards Bernie, Ruby Red the Conman, Barefoot Benny, Geeper Creeper, Para the Paranoid, Lusty Laura, Xlax, Shark Boy, the Pawtucket Pirate, Bait Broad, Colonel Crispy, Scupper Lips, Bob the Broker, the Pirate Queen, Otto the Owner, the Twin Slaves of Green Slime-and even a terribly long-winded fellow named (Hurricane) Hugo. All seem hell-bent on avoiding the cops, the creeps, each other, and especially the Dreaded Dream Crushers. Dive in!

Cap'n Fatty Goodlander has lived over 50 years (of 58) aboard various sailing craft--forty of them with his wife Carolyn. Their daughter Roma Orion was a third generation live-aboard before she escaped to Brandeis University. (Their dirty little secret: Roma has become {gasp!} a dirt-dweller.)

He's written numerous books, six of which are currently in print. For 17 years, he produced a WVWI radio show aboard his vessel as he sailed the world. In 2008, he had a series of Sunday summer sailing spots on National Public Radio (NPR).

He currently lives aboard his 38 foot cutter-rigged Wild Card in the Mediterranean Sea and is about to complete his second circumnavigation.

He is also currently an editor-at-large for Cruising World magazine. In addition, he's written a Caribbean marine column for 30+ years--which presently appears in All At Sea.

Next up: a novel, a Caribbean refit, and a third circumnavigation.

His motto: "Kiss life full on the lips. Live while you're alive!"

"He refuses to grow up," confirms his wife Carolyn. "I'm always hoping he'll eventually show some small signs of maturing--but I'm beginning to think I hope in vain." She paused in exasperation, blew a wayward strand of her dark Italian hair upwards in frustration, and wearily said, "The reason we don't have much money is because they pay my husband what he's worth!"