Any body read this book?

imported
#1

In 1999 while rummaging through the hiker box at the Caratunk Post Office/store, I picked up a paper back. I started to read it one rainy night and only got thru the first 20 pages. I decided that I didn’t want to carry it with me on the trail, so I left it at the next shelter. I wrote the name of the book and author on a slip of paper so that I could check it out at the library when I got home. Alas, I lost the slip of paper and can’t remember the title nor the author. Is there anyone out there who has read the story and can tell me the title of the book? This is how it started:
A man and his wife were sailing in the ocean. It became her turn to sail the boat (around midnight) while her husband slept down below. During her night-watch, she somehow fell overboard and couldn’t catch the boat as it sailed away, leaving her to float in the ocean alone and scared. This is the point at which I stopped reading and left the book at the shelter.

Is there anyone who is familiar with this book?  And if so could you tell me the title or perhaps the author.  I would love to know how she survives the ordeal in the ocean.
I have imagined many possible scenarios as to how she is saved, but I would like to know how it worked out in the book.

Take five

#2

I have either read this book or seen a movie about it. But I have no idea either the name or author. But I know you’re not making it up!

:oh

Bluebearee

#3

You got me wondering, I did a quick search and came up with the opposite scenario in “Red Sky in Mourning” where the fiance of the woman falls overboard. Possible you have it backwards? Look on Amazon.

Bluebearee

#4

Bluebearee, where you been? Hiking? Working?

See you out there.:cheers

Maintain

#5

Bluebearee, I am positive that it was the woman who fell overboard, it definitely wasn’t “Red Sky in Mourning”. Thanks for trying to help. It just bugs me that I can’t remember the author or title. It’s a silly thing, I know, but at times when I think back on my hike, the book question rears it’s ugly head.

Take five

#6

Please do not leave books at shelters, any item that does not belong must be carried out by shelter maintainer. (that would be me and hundreds others like me)
Thank You for your cooperation:)

Chef

#7

Maintain-Tax season. Planning my CT hike, you’ll see my name sprinkled liberally over on that forum.

I’d rather find a book of fiction in a shelter than the Bible. Oh wait, it’s the same thing isn’t it??

:lol

Bluebearee

#8

:eek:

You had better pray he is watching over me when we are out on that trail, or it’ll be you!! HH:girl

Hammock Hanger

#9

LOL, Chef. I know the feeling well.

Harry Dolphin

#10

I think I remember reading that book years ago. The title was “Overboard”. Maybe John D. MacDonald wrote it? Perhaps you can do a search… When she went over, she didn’t have any clothes on because it was so hot, but she grabbed onto some sort of plastic bottle attached to a slimy rope…I don’t think she had her PFD either. The husband threw out a flashing beacon later when realized she was gone. She was able to get to that or maybe just see it. There was a lot of flashback as to why they were where they were, plus a lot of stream-of-consciousness…I think. It’s been years since I read it.

I do remember how it ended, but perhaps you will want to read it so I’ll not tell you, unless you ask. :tongue

Lady Di

#11

This was not the same as the movie “Overboard” with Goldie Hawn. :tongue

Lady Di

#12

Take Five, I guess I have way too much time on my hands! The book is “Overboard” by Hank Searls who also wrote “The Crowded Sky”…I remember that one too. The woman falls overboard 70 miles from Tahiti…she has a flimsy PFD on. I got curious because I remembered it so clearly. I found the information on Amazon.com looking for books pre-1985. It must have been pretty good for me to remember it so well…or maybe it was because I used to sail. Oh well, here I am wasting time instead of updating my journal! :oh

P.S. I always take a paperback book with me on the trail…it’s well worth the weight, IMHO.

Lady Di

#13

Lady Di, Nope, it wasn’t “Overboard”, but I appreciate your information. Maybe if I read “Overboard”, I will forget about the book I am searching for. “Overboard” sounds like a good read. Thanks!

Take five

#14

I was reading one of the Trail Journals and it said that he carried 6 pounds of books on his AT hike. I noticed that he did not complete the hike that year (or perhaps he did and just did not complete his journal). So, how many books do you (whoever reads this) carry on your hike?

Skylander

#15

My favorite book on the trail was “The Golden Stream” by I.P. Freely. Others that are worth reading are: “Race to the Outhouse” by Willie Makeittt and illustrated by Betty Wont. “The Broken Toilet” by Whoshid A. Brik. “Antlers In the Treetop” by Whogoozd daMoose. “The Ruptured Chinaman” by Won Hung Lo. Read and enjoy you hike!

Bookworm

#16

Was this book, perhaps, a true-crime mystery that Anne Rule wrote. She wrote something similiar if this is not it.

With all due respect to those who maintain the shelters - if we are talking about paperback books, I don’t really think much harm comes from leaving them at a shelter. Of course, if there is already a library there - might want to carry it on down the road.

There have been some very enjoyable zero days when I found a book at a shelter and spent some time reading. Or perhaps to make the “time” go faster when meditating in a shelter privy.

Brutus