About the Author

H J (Pete) Pettersen started fishing with his dad and brothers in Alaska and on the Pacific Coast at age eight and by the time he was thirteen he captained a fishing boat in westward Alaska.Capt. Pete earned his Chief Engineer, Captain and Oceans Master licenses, and spent most of his career traveling the world as an Ocean Tugboat Captain and a short time as an Alaska Cruise Ship Captain.Capt. Pete, his wife Kat, and their dog Charlie, spend summers cruising southeast Alaska and British Columbia waters in their long-range trawler, Points North III.