The Bimini Twist Library
Bimini Twist
​​Bimini Twist, the first in the series, introduces the main characters, Max Carson, and his two sons, P.J. and Gaffer. The title of the book is taken from the name of the small open boat they use to fish the waters of the Bahamas Islands. In this adventure the Carson men meet up with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force to help take down a drug smuggling operation operating out of Bimini, a small fishing village in the western Bahamas. Let the adventures begin!
Kona Kai
When Max Carson agreed to have his boat, Bimini Twist, ferried over to the Hawaiian Islands on board the luxury yacht Felicity, he was looking forward to enjoying the summer with his boys P.J. and Gaffer, fishing in the quiet waters off Kona. And the fishing action was excellent with amazing blue marlin and yellowfin tuna. Even paradise has its share of unwelcome danger. Young teens who do stupid things, the awesome forces of nature in the forms of erupting volcanoes, wild game fish and an angry mother humpback whale combine to make this a Bimini Twist Adventure to remember.
Abaco Gold
Abaco Gold is the continuing story of the adventures of Bimini Twist, this time in the beautiful chain of islands known as the Abacos. While a group of dedicated marine archaeologist work to recover artifacts from a treasure-rich Spanish galleon with a view toward creating a maritime museum, more sinister forces are at work to plunder the underwater artifacts for their own personal enrichment. The Carsons spend their summer working with the treasure salvers to help protect the artifacts and bring them to the surface while foiling the plans of the treasure jumpers.
Wave Dancer
​When Gaffer Carson takes a temporary job as the captain of the luxurious fishing machine, Wave Dancer, he has no way of knowing that Reginald Cordelle, the yacht's previous captain, was involved in a plot to smuggle weapons from the Bahamas Islands to the coast of Florida. By agreement between Will Tanner, the yacht's owner, and the Defense Force, Cordelle is reinstated at Wave Dancer's captain as a setup to trick him into a trap to foil the smuggling operation.
Exuma Tide
When a luxury yacht signals a mayday and ultimately sinks off Cat Cay, Max and Gaffer Carson are nearby on board Fearless Flyer, a sportfisher participating in the Bahamas wahoo tournament. They save the party on board the sinking vessel and befriend its owners, Jeremy and Jessica Diamond. A harrowing adventure ensues when a young girl is kidnapped from the Diamond home in Cat Cay and transported to the Exuma Islands. This is an edgy adventure with Bimini twist plowing the shallow reefs of the Exuma chain in the pitch black night, never knowing when the bottom of their boat or their propellers will come in contact with the unforgiving coral and rocks.
Four Dudes is the sixth book in the Bimini Twist Adventure series. The main characters, Max Carson and his two sons, P.J. and Gaffer, return in this adventure where they salvage a very special sport fishing boat in the Florida Keys. Four Dudes is a reference to the four men who are involved in the saving of this monstrous 42-foot Freeman catamaran and the quad outboard motors that push this hull to 70 miles per hour and still climbing. The fishing action is great, but the story around this salvage and the coolest boats on the water will keep the reader enthralled from beginning to end.
The Bouncer Smith Chronicles
Captain Bouncer Smith has had great stories to tell all his life. And when he hooked up with author Patrick Mansell he was given an outlet to have his stories told and published. Over the course of four years Bouncer and his scribe collaborated in a unique way. He would voice record each story and email it to Mansell. And then the author would transcribe the recording into written documents. The first book, The Bouncer Smith Chronicles , came together quickly. Bouncer had so much to tell and he could hardly wait to get it out. And once the Chronicles book was finished and published, Bouncer remembered numerous other stories and individuals he had left out of the book who really should have been mentioned. And his hunch was right, he had plenty more stories, so he and Mansell went back to work, more voice recordings, and more writing. But all the while Bouncer had been wanting to share his fishing expertise with the world. Not adventures, but knowledge. After all, he had been sport fishing in South Atlantic waters for sixty years and had achieved as much success and any other guide / charter captain had ever done. That book has taught a lot of captains and anglers stuff they did not know and that would take a lifetime to learn. During this time Captain Bouncer retired, but his fishing schedule never slowed. He moved to Atlanta and continues traveling all over Georgia, the Carolinas, and Florida, creating more adventures and sending voice recording to the writer. And finally, about four years after the adventure in writing had commenced with the publication of the Chronicles book, there were still more stories to tell, and the added benefit of color pictures was now available. So Bouncer and Mansell chose a few of the best stories from the other books and added a few more, plus a bunch of color photography. And that completed the Chronicles Collection. It has been an amazing adventure for the story teller and his scribe.
Living Legends of Big Game Fishing is a collection of stories written by some of history's biggest names in offshore fishing. Each of these legendary captains tells his favorite stories of adventure after decades of experience on the bridge. The men involved in this book read like a who's who of big game fishing. This book is loaded with some of the most exciting stories in the history of big game fishing.
Ron Hamlin began his career as a sport fishing captain off the coast of Maryland when he was 19 years old. He worked hard all his life and became one of the most recognized sport fishing captains in the world. In addition to more world record catches than can be counted, he also has the distinction of being the first captain to have landed 30,000 billfish. In the 1980s Captain Hook, as he was called, decided to try his hand at writing a novel, and Tournament is the product of that decision. Thousands of sport fishing enthusiasts have enjoyed this clever book that came from the mind of a great man.
Bud n' Mary's Marina, located in the heart of the Florida Keys is called by many The Sport Fishing Capitol of the World. This book chronicles the history of the marina and many of its famous guides and an eclectic mixture of characters since its beginning in the 1950s. Through those years the marina has grown to be the biggest and most popular fishing destination in the Keys with a history of many of the greatest guides and innovators the sport of fishing has ever known.
Enrique's Dock is the story of a marina that has drawn sport fishers from all over North America and Europe for its abundant fish stocks and its friendly, safe, and pristine environment. Today the very forward thinking patriarch of Isla Mujeres on Mexico's east coast is Enrique Lima . As far back as the 1960s the Lima family saw the future of Cancun and Isla Mujeres as a potential paradise for vacationers if developed the right way. With a keen eye toward conservation this island has grown into one of the top sport fishing destinations in all of Mexico.
The Bimini Twist Library is dedicated to watermen of any kind, fishing guides, famous marinas, and fishing destinations but particularly about people who love and enjoy the ocean. Spoils Island is about just such a person, Barry Shaw. Barry is retired from surfing competition, but in his day he was a world ranked longboard surfer. And even though surfing occupies his mind an inordinate amount of the time, he still lived the normal life as a family man, philanthropist, and successful banker. Spoils Island is the name of a surfing destination that no longer exists. It was washed away by the shifting tides, but there remain some of the best surfing destinations in the world where Barry has made his mark and created a lifetime of memories that he shares with his friends and fans. Surfers are not simply long haired beach bums; they come in all shapes and sizes with every imaginable outside interest. Barry Shaw's happens to be particularly unique.
Thoughtful Quotes
Often we use a famous or apt quote to express an idea or to help to cement an argument. It doesn't always matter who said it or what is. said. More to the point is that it is a quote that has been remembered and repeated. There are some pretty profound thoughts out there by some very wise people. But this book also demonstrates that just because a quote is popular and used often, does not necessarily mean it is profound. Often wise quotes come from the mouths of wise people. But this book may surprise you at how untrue that statement often is.
The Bathroom Book of Quotes is an aptly named non-fiction work that introduces the reader to new characters, both historical and contemporary. It is an eclectic work that offers the briefest biography of these famous people along with some of their most famous quotes. This work describes the lives of such diverse personalities as Confucius, Thomas Jefferson, Elvis Presley and John Kennedy. Well known for clever quotes were such famous personalities as Winston Churchill and May West.
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Serious Non Fiction
John Wayne Goff, known by the handle of Johnny Dollar because of his penchant for turning unfortunate situations into opportunities, was the most successful insurance man in the state of Alabama. His years of hard work made him a wealthy man. But all that came to a halt when he fought back against a shakedown by politically connected forces within the corrupt state government. With everything cratering in around him, his fight for justice cost him his fortune and his freedom along with a twelve year federal prison sentence.
That people lose money on account of their inability to understand basic finance is sad. It is not at all difficult for the average person to learn the basics in financial management. It begins with an understanding of budgeting, credit, banking, interest expense, borrowing, and simple balance sheets and profit and loss statements. Financial Literacy for Everyone brings this information to the average person in a way that is incredibly simple. And knowledge of the concepts contained within these pages can be worth a fortune over a person's lifetime.
Adventure Novels
In the sleepy central Florida town of Moss Creek, drug use among teenagers has become an epidemic. Drug overdoses and school truancy are daily occurrences and the law is doing nothing about it. Frustrated by a slow moving and corrupt judicial system, a small group of parents decides to take matters into their own hands. The action heats up when a clear vote of support is given by Jake Hairston, the county sheriff. His no nonsense approach to cleaning up the problem has the drug dealers and crooked lawyers running for cover. Get ready for some fast moving action as The Fathers' Club cuts a wide swath through this drug infested territory.
When the Federal Reserve cuts the legs out from under the stock and futures markets with an interest rate tightening policy that strangles the world economy, trillions of dollars of worldwide net worth is decimated. Nick Anthony, owner of Market Makers, a day trading hub operating out of San Diego watches some of his best friends and traders get seriously hurt. Some nearing bankruptcy. His anger forces him to assemble a team of pros with varying skills to make a comeback through the illegal activity known as insider trading. Your adrenaline will rise as this high speed adventure in futures trading takes shape and the team rushes to keep ahead of the feds.
An Experiment in AI
Poems from the Brain of a Machine was written and published in a single day. It was created when the author logged into ChatGPT and asked it to write a series of poems on various subjects. Instructions were given like "write a poem about parenting," or "write a poem about cats, or the ocean, or courage, or love." The machine wrote the poems, each in about two or three seconds. Then those poems, along with a forward also created by the machine, were copied onto a Word document. This was formatted and converted to a PDF for uploading to KDP.
Interestingly, the poems the machine created are excellent, well written, and thought provoking. It is the kind of work that a poet might take months to create and a novelist could never create. It is a lesson that artificial intelligence, while frightening in many respects, will be a useful tool for productivity that is now a permanent part of our culture.