Gary H Karlsen
The Bosun’s Anchor with the double stock represents intelligence, leadership, loyalty and love. The tattoo must be earned.
– Bosun: The Mariner’s Journals
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Bosun: The Mariner’s Journals
RELEASED April 2023 The novel about the larger-than-life bosun in No Ordinary Seaman. In this historical fiction, we voyage with Bosun through his journals, written by a familiar seaman—Harbo, from the Havkatt and the Polycastle. Bosun’s journals are a maritime saga about the nonsensical nature of humanity. Ulf Kleivik went to sea as a youth because that’s what generations of men did in his Norwegian seafaring family. The boy sailor experienced the horrors of whaling, the tragedies and the loss of life during the Battle of the Atlantic. He quickly[...]
No Ordinary Seaman
No Ordinary Seaman is a memoir of the author’s days at sea in the Norwegian Merchant Marine, 1965-67 Synopsis In the mid-1960’s a young man, fresh out of high school in Vancouver, crews on a Norwegian deep-sea freighter in the hopes that it will take him to Norway, the land of his ancestors. His voyages on the Havkatt, across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, through the Panama Canal, and north to New York, are filled with personal explorations, adventure, and danger. He eventually arrives in Norway, and satisfies his dreams[...]
Baldrey’s Books
Keith Baldrey, Legislative Bureau Chief for Global TV at the BC Parliament Buildings regularly displays the books of local BC authors during his broadcasts. Back in October, a few of us attended the legislative proceeding in the public gallery. During recess, I bumped into Mr. Baldrey and we had a nice chat. “So, you’re an author. What do you write?” With that opening, I proceeded to tell him about No Ordinary Seaman, now a Best Seller, and my two Bosun novels. I had his attention. Of course, he’d have to[...]
