Olaf Nordstrom

OLAF NORDSTROM is a bartender/writer/fisherman/carpenter/philosopher/sailor/survivor/raconteur of little repute who hails originally from the shores of Cape Cod. After forsaking nearly everything which was his (including his own name), he set up life aboard his sailboat, S.S. Victorious Egret, then took a bearing south by southwest to gunkhole among the Elizabeth Islands. Much of what little time he spent ashore was usually around the docks and bars of Woods Hole, sometimes Chatham, and even Provincetown on the Cape, as well as those on the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Not one to drop his anchor for long, however, Nordstrom eventually set his course even further south to Crab Key, where he now cooks, eats, drinks, fishes, sails, reads, writes, plays his saxophone, and spends as little time working as the rest of the world will allow.

Nordstrom is the author of The Essential Book of Boat Drinks & Assorted Frozen Concoctions; Things You Know by Heart: 1001 Questions from the Songs of Jimmy Buffett; The Margaritaville Cookbook (now re-titled as Jimmy's Buffet: Food for Feeding Friends & Feeding Frenzies); The Buffett Book of Whirled Records: A Compendium of Useless (But Nontheless Important) Information; and The Essential Book of Tequila.

Since the very early 1970s, he has been a holder, now and then, of The Guinness Book of World Records.