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A Walker Shaw Novel
Loyal to duty.
Loyal to duty.
True to the crew.Vigilant.
TODO — replace with two or three lines about the series. What Walker Shaw does, what the books are about, and why the procedure in them is accurate.
Licensed Master · USCG
Pacific · Gulf · Atlantic
Forty Years of Navigation
Former Command, Training Ship Morris
The Author
Forty years of navigation before the first page.
Nate Eckler holds a USCG Master's license and has spent forty years navigating the coastal United States — the Pacific Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic seaboard — as a licensed captain, delivery skipper, and marine surveyor.
He commanded a youth training ship, the former USCG Cutter Morris, which is a particular kind of job: you are responsible for the vessel and for a deck full of teenagers who have never stood a watch, and the sea does not grade on effort. He has moved boats through hurricane season, sat across the table from buyers who were lying, and learned the parts of the maritime trade that never make the brochure.
He writes about that world because the real version is stranger, quieter, and more consequential than the version in most thrillers. The procedure is accurate. The paperwork is accurate. The weather is accurate. What happens in between is invented.
The books are set on the Gulf Coast, where he lives.
- License USCG Licensed Master
- Navigating Forty years
- Waters Pacific Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Seaboard
- Command Youth training ship — former USCG Cutter Morris
- Trade Yacht delivery, marine survey, brokerage
- Based Gulf Coast
Dispatches
Notes from the dock
Occasional writing on the working waterfront, the research behind the books, and what the trade actually looks like.