Fingerprints...

Snow flurries beyond the window of a Low Country gas station give way to images of an aging schooner motoring south on the Intracoastal Waterway. A dream sets in motion a lifelong search that weaves a path from the islands of the Caribbean to Bermuda and the Azores, from Europe and Newfoundland to Mexico, and from South Florida to Central America to Taiwan. Along the way there are shipwrecks and typhoons, catfish and whales, sunken Spanish treasure, open sewers and Hash House Harriers, and a 1959 Plymouth Fury awash to its tailfins in an outgoing tide. These stories help to form a mosaic of one man’s journey toward the horizon and the fingerprints he left behind.

Author Biography

Lew Decker is a retired middle school teacher who makes his home in San Diego, California. He has held more than fifteen positions in a variety of career paths ranging from cartographer to charter boat captain, including a stint in the U. S. Navy during the Vietnam era. A veteran blue-water yachtsman, Lew spent several years in the Caribbean sailing circuit and is the only person on his block who has been shipwrecked on a deserted island. Today he enjoys adult league baseball, fly fishing, road trips, and amateur radio (KJ6G), and is an avid follower of vintage car racing.