Captain Buddy Ward's book of poetry. Captain Buddy Ward is a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was graduated from The Citadel and holds a master's degree from the University of South Carolina. Upon graduation, he worked for Charleston County for almost a decade in the juvenile justice system, then became a tugboat captain working in Charleston Harbor for over thirty years. He is the author of Tales of the Anna Karrue, a fiction novel about life aboard a tugboat, published in 1988 by Tradd Street Press. He has also written for Power and Motor Yacht, Coastal Cruising, Latitudes and Attitudes, Southern Boating, as well as several other magazines, and for more than ten years was a staff writer for The Water Log, a local maritime journal.
More recently, he and his wife cruised aboard Evening Star, their beautiful forty-one-foot Islander Freeport sailboat, covering twenty-two hundred miles in almost five years and working at jobs around the waterfront along the way. Their adventure behind them, they are home again in Charleston, along with Skipper the golden retriever and Ellie the chocolate lab, and Captain Buddy has returned to writing about what he knows best.