Blow the Man Down

On the coast of Maine in the early twentieth century, young Captain Boyd Mayo commands the steam yacht of Julius Marston, a Wall Street financier, and falls in love with his daughter Alma. Humiliated by Marston in front of his guests, he decides to leave. That same night, in the fog, a very old sailing ship loaded with timber catches him as it passes and carries him out to sea. What follows is a storm, the help he gives to fishing families driven off their island, and a struggle against Marston, who wants to seize the steamship lines of the coast. A novel of adventure and love, full of humour, set to the rhythm of old sea shanties.