C. E. Bowman

In 1971 C.E. Bowman dropped out of college and took off with a backpack and headed for Europe. His meanderings led him through Africa to the Seychelles Islands, where his sailing adventures began. After sailing on a yacht up the Red Sea, across the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, Bowman washed ashore in the islands of the West Indies. The next fourteen years of his life were spent in the Caribbean, where he learned to build wooden boats, culminating in the construction of a 70 foot schooner, which he lived aboard and chartered with his wife and young daughter. In 1988 he and his family left the Caribbean and settled in Fremantle, Australia, where he spent the next 25 years building and repairing wooden boats. But through all the passing years the stories that he had heard of the old time West Indies while building his boats there had not left him, until at long last he decided to sit down and put all that experience into a book. 'TRADEWINDS, a Tale of the Caribbean' is the end result.