A couple of stories were quite interesting but my fingers weren't salty when I finished reading them and perhaps in there lies the problem.

If you like sea stories and have never been on a boat you might enjoy the material more than someone who owns a boat and has been dashed about by the sea.

Most of us that operate vessels make a real effort to leave a port and arrive at another in one piece.

The stories in "Rough Water" are about people that never planned and often didn't seem to know where they were going or where they had been. The settings of the stories never really evolved.

I would recommend purchasing this book and then sharing it with many friends so that they too didn't have to invest in it.