Woman in the Wheelhouse

by Nancy Taylor Robson

Book Overview

Nancy Taylor Robson is one of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard license. She grew up sailing and building boats with her father and worked as a housepainter, desk clerk and yacht... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870333313
• ISBN13: 9780870333316
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Excellent First Person Account of Tugboat Life

One of the more fascinating aspects of commercial maritime life revolves around the tugboat. Nancy Taylor Robson marries a tugboat captain, and starts her seagoing career as a cook. Soon she is doing more of the jobs on the boat, and earns her Coast Guard License, and rises to the rank of Mate. She has an excellent eye for the work, the sea and the men she serves with. This book is every bit as good as the more popular The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw. While tug life is not usually as dangerous or exciting as longlining for swordfish on the Grand Banks, her portrayals of the crew are more three dimensional.