Childhood: Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada, son of ship captain, childhood spent at sea with father; Lunenberg Academy, high school, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, study at sea; experience sailing cargo ships, oil tankers in Pacific, Atlantic oceans; marriage to Mary Evangeline [Laney] Kohler, 1945; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: master of Vema, voyages to South America, Antarctic; capta in of Vema, 1957: assembly of crew members, voyages to Russia, China; executive, Company of Marine Masters of Canada; reminiscences of colleagues.