As a seven-year-old boy, Pat Winton was first introduced to big, open water via the Gulf of Mexico, and soon thereafter to the wild and mysterious Lake Superior, which captured his imagination and began a lifelong love and desire to be on the water.
Join Pat Winton and his first mate—his wife Elaine—on their power boating adventures over the forty years spent on the Great Lakes and Inland Waters, developing their skills with increasingly larger boats, revolutionary marine technology, flooded rivers, ferocious winds, and wild waves, and exploring North America’s most beautiful, challenging, and dangerous fresh and salt waters. Continually searching for new adventures together, they willingly stepped out of their comfort zone to become freshwater islanders and explorers, discovering the secrets of the Great Lakes.
This book highlights the new, exciting, and challenging opportunities which unfolded, as they increased their knowledge and experiences with large watercraft. These stories are told as if you were on–board, living through the challenges of striving to exceed all expectations and master being the most experienced Great Lakes pleasure boat Captain.
CHASING WAVES invites you aboard the Wintons' succession of boats and yachts as they face dangerous flood waters, solid walls of fog, shipwrecks, submerged rocks, terrifying waterway lock malfunctions, mechanical breakdowns, technological advances, and the sheer joy and exhilaration of boating across America’s most challenging waterways.
CHASING WAVES is Pat’s second book.
