The Chapters

The 52,000 word manuscript is divided into two parts. The first part has 22 chapters of a total of 61. Many chapters are just 1-3 pages in length. A couple are longer, up to 7 or 10 pages.

Here is a list of the chapter headings.

1. Philosopher
2. Surgery
3. Fight
4. Ships
5. Life on Willingdon Island
6. The College Years
7. Bombay
8. The Interview
9. Dufferin
10. Dufferin Madness
11. An Unpleasant Incident
12. Shore Leave in Bombay
13. Apprenticeship: 1968-69
14. My Father
15. Second Mate’s Exam
16. Officer
17. A Home for My Mother
18. Death in Rajkot
19. Kalim
20. The Don
21. Ranu
22. Captain
23. First Assignement
24. Storm in the Singapore Strait
25. It Took me Ten Years
26. Mutiny Anyone
27. Devil on the High Seas
28. A Place Called Home
29. Piloting in Madras
30. What Goes Around
31. The Supply Ship Scene
32. Learning the Ropes
33. Ship Adrift
34. The Drillship Drill
35. Offshore Leisure
36. Nouakchott
37. Chickened Out
38. The First Stowaway
39. Suez
40. Two More Stowaways
41. Sulphur
42. Fish, Parrots, Plankton, Coffee
43. A Costly Miscalculation
44. Forgery in Yanbu
45. Piloting in Yanbu
46. Goodbye Yanbu
47. Amamapare
48. My Thoughts on the Lunar Calendar
49. Growlers in Newfoundland
50. Twins
51. All About a Bulb
52. A Seaman’s Grit
53. Freak Waves
54. A Disagreeable Situation
55. Cook
56. On Officers and Engineers
57. A Brush with the Bombay Underworld
58. A Pinch of Piracy
59. Shortcut
60. Man Overboard
61. The Other Radio Officer
62. The Last Assignment