My wife went to Amherst so we fight over schools, and who gets to skipper our boat. I enjoyed your book, but I'm going to hide it from her. Thanks for the book. In the Perfect Storm it was stated that the Andrea Gail was a sister ship to the Hannah Boden. This was false but it seems to be the term we are all using now.
Sister ships are actually ships built from the same blueprints.
I was optimistic while calling the Andrea Gail over the radio and that I would eventually get a response. I never gave up hope until I returned to Gloucester the same day the Coast Guard cancelled the search. The state of Maine where I fish lobsters has an oversize law. Lobsters bigger than 4 pounds are thrown back to be breeders. And I had to have the ankle rebroken while ashore and a steel plate and pins put in.