How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt Book

	The Boat in the Coach House in which I sink as far as possible	1
	The Tin Canoe of World War Two in which I begin a lifetime of building eyeball designed boats	9
	The Reynolds in which I learn the true meaning of life ... when I am young enough to make some good use of the knowledge	18
	The Reynolds Crew Discovers St. George Island and saves the day with a brave rescue	26
	Another Reynolds Rescue in which I escape formal education but become educated nevertheless	43
	A Few Recipes of the Reynolds Crew in which I begin a lifetime as a gourmet	53
	Sailfish in which someone else learns a lesson ... well, almost	62
	Storm Boat Motor in which, due to the onset of puberty, I foolishly expand my compulsion to include machinery	68
	How I Became a Boatbuilder in which I take a wife, turn professional, and learn a lot all at the same time	74
	Terrible Torque and the Floorboard Man in which there is a terrible tragedy, so you might want to skip this one	88
	Monkey Island in which I leave my young bride for ... monkeys	97
	Seagull in which I learn not to be so gullible	104
	Prams in which I become a successful, professional boatbuilder first shot out of the box	111
	Pleistocene Creek in which I almost give it all up and quit the boatbuilding business for good	115
	Sheephead Head Soup in which there are the natural histories of two fish and a worm and ... yet another recipe	123
	Sea Turtle in which I learn my lesson about being so presumptuous ... well, almost	134
	Cobio in which I save my children from starvation but almost freeze to death in the process	138
	The Giant Catfish of Mobile in which I meet an astonishing transvestite ... and cook breakfast	148
	King Tut in which I prove the disclaimer that none of these stories could possibly be true	155
	The Slave's Recipe in which I do a little more tugging, get involved in a criminal conspiracy, and get locked up for murder ... and learn a new recipe ... and satisfy a lifelong curiosity ... a long story	158
	Islands in which I reveal yet another obsession	174
	The Canned Ham Incident in which I do not participate, so Hurrah for the other side	179
	Dead Man's Boat in which I reveal two morals	190
	The Old J 80 Johnson in which I help a man recover his long-lost self-esteem	196
	The Sailing, Commercial Fishing Felucca "Bullet" # 9999 in which there is a poem	200
	The Caribs and the Arawaks in which I figure out economics, but too late to participate in any of it	215
	An Analog Mind Stuck in a Digital World in which I finally, in the twilight of my life, figure out what the hell is wrong with me and effect a complete cure	219
	Cooking Up Opinions in which I finally set aside my peculiar ways and start acting like all the other old men in the world	224
	Acknowledgments	227