He is an author by trade... http://worldcat.org/oclc/60783049

And pictures from his story... turning this
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into this
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His website says he has "US Coast Guard 200 Ton Masters license and has sailed forty thousand miles offshore"

He already knows how to get rescued!

Mike, Ohio
Former H16, H18, N20, N17, M4.3