Mike Jastrzebski Follow

In September of 2003 my wife, Mary, and I moved aboard our 36-foot sailboat, Rough Draft. Over the next 16 years, this move proved to be the adventure of a lifetime. We first traveled on the inland river system from Minnesota to Mobile, Alabama. We lived in Mobile for two years docked at a small marina. Hurricane Katrina dropped our boat into a neighbor's backyard. After rescuing the boat, we sailed to Florida where we spent three months living at a mooring in Key West. From there we cruised up the east coast to Ft. Lauderdale where we lived on the boat and I wrote for six years. We hoisted the sails once again in the spring of 2012 and we traversed the Gulf Stream and explored the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas until hurricane season sent us back to Florida. After that, we sailed up to the Chesapeake, then back down to Florida where we suffered boat damage during hurricane Matthew. Six of my seven books were written while living on the boat. There are currently three books available in my Wes Darling Sailing mystery series, two stand alone thrillers, and two books in my World's Worst Detective paranormal series. I expect book four in the Wes Darling series, Million Doller Blues, to be completed by late summer, 2021.