Real, Honest Book with a Great Lakes Captain

From the Introduction:

"This is a book about how a book changed a life.  All his grown years, Gary Schmidt sailed the Great Lakes as master of a vessel.  For most of those years, he was in charge of crews and of massive loads of product.  For many people, his was a ship that passed as a slow-moving blur way off in the distance from a shore.  Such ships hold a mystique and mysteries for most people.  They are "out there."

An opportunity arose for Gary to bring the "out there" to a reality in a book in which he explains all.

Not many Great Lakes captains write books.

Rare is the book that tells what happens after a captain's book comes out while he is being shadowed by chemotherapy.

This is the extraordinary "Real, Honest Book with a Great Lakes Captain."