Robert Morris

Well, here I am, sailing again!  This time it's onboard my own webpage!  Never thought this would happen. 


Here's a bit about me. I'm an older faht (I can't believe that I made it this far, had I known I was going to live this long I would have taken......oh, you've heard that one,...nevah mind).  So, I'm a scientist by training and inclination and I worked primarily at small companies doing scientific R&D for 40 years before retiring.  During that time, I wrote many a proposal, reports, journal articles and patent disclosures.  After I retired, all that writing stahted me to thinking that maybe I could translate that experience into doing popular writing.  Well, it's a big leap from scientific writing to popular narrative writing as my first book "Circadian Rhythm" can attest.  Since finishing that memoir of our early sailing days, I moved on to other stories, mostly novels.  My penchant for history and sea stories has led to a series of books that intertwine those two themes.  I hope you enjoy my writings and drop me a line if you have any suggestions, comments at scomo1947@yahoo.com


Thanks,



Scott


Boat Builders of Fairhaven

This is a historical account of three pivotal, 20th century Fairhaven boat builders, Major J. Casey, William H. Hand Jr. and Palmer Scott. Their work influenced the fourth protagonist in this story, the famous C. Raymond Hunt who was the designer and moving force behind many famous, revolutionary yacht designs such as the Concordia yawl, Boston Whaler, and the Bertram Moppie. Major Casey was a rough old “meat and potatoes” builder who manufactured a plethora of fast sailing vessels, rum-runners and more than 100 military rescue boats during World War Two. William Hand invented the V-hull power boat in 1909 and perfected the motorsailer yacht. He was an avid swordfisherman which was a powerful motivation in his designs. Palmer Scott was a pioneer in the use of marine plywood and fiberglass for building boats. What they all had in common was Fairhaven which was the catalyst for their ultimate success.

Up the Road from Felony Flats

Felony Flats is a small town in Texas located on Galveston Bay that officially goes by the name San Leon. It’s an interesting, colorful place with a curious history and a great seafood restaurant called the Top Water Grill. Up the road a piece from Felony Flats is another town named League City where my daughter Julie chose to reside providing my family's introduction to the great state of Texas. This book re-counts a twelve-year period when we bounced back and forth between summers in Oregon and winters in Texas and includes a large cast of characters.

The "Line": Morris, R., Ilsley, Edward: 9781728837444: Amazon.com: Books

The "Line" was an artificial barrier more than one hundred miles off the coast of New England that separated American and Canadian fisheries resources. It was established in the 1980s by the International Court in the Hauge, hence the name "the Hauge Line". Nearly from the outset it became a tempting target for American fishermen, but when the Atlantic scallop resource collapsed on the American side of the Line, desperation drove American fishermen to tempt ruin or worse to maintain their liveli
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New Bedford, the Whaling City where, for generations, men have rolled the dice to harvest the sea's bounty. Storms, reefs and fickle catches have traditionally plagued the New Bedford fishermen and their whalemen forebearers, but still, New Bedford men go to sea. When times are tough, desperate men will resort to desperate means to keep their boat and livelihood intact. Such is the case with Mike O'Malley. When his aged dragger falls on hard times, Mike makes a deal with a notorious waterfront gangster to help make ends meet. What follows is a tale of greed, deceit, violence, revenge, and redemption on the high seas during a vicious gale.

The best way out...: A South American Odyssey: Morris, Robert Scott: 9798638801342: Amazon.com: Books

“The Best Way Out” is a stirring tale of the misfortunes and triumphs of a young English/Argentine sailor from Devon in his quest to sail around Cape Horn. William Spyre defies the odds as he survives the ‘79 Fastnet Race debacle, then later arrest by the Argentine Junta as an English spy. Unable to psychologically break William, his sadistic Argentine Navy tormentor forces him into the Argentine Army as part of the invasion of the the Falkland Islands. William survives combat, is rescued by a B

Amazon.com: The Battery R. Scott Morris: Books

The Battery sits at the tip of Manhattan and over the course of four centuries it has served as a fort, a haven for newly arriving immigrants and a refuge from city life for harried New Yorkers. On September 11th 2001 it would become the focal point for a maritime evacuation that rivaled the British efforts at Dunkirk in 1940. During the course of that day, an obscure homicide would later compel an NYPD detective to find the murderer of his partner in New York subway tunnel. The result of this investigation would shock many and would illuminate a root cause of the 911 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers.

Whaling City: Morris, R. Scott: 9781483982984: Amazon.com: Books

I come from a commercial fishing family (not in New Beddy, but elsewhere in New England) and have friends who fish out of New Bedford, South Shore and Gloucester so the basis and setting of the story was of interest to me. The story itself was okay, the writing was not so good. It seemed at the beginning that the author was making too much of an effort to use words and terms that would not actually be used by commercial fishermen, but that component seemed to drop off as he got further into the

Up the Road from Felony Flats

https://www.amazon.com/Up-Road...Felony Flats is a small town in Texas located on Galveston Bay that officially goes by the name San Leon. It’s an interesting, colorful place with a curious history and a great seafood restaurant called the Top Water Grill. Up the road a piece from Felony Flats is another town named League City where my daughter Julie chose to reside providing my family's introduction to the great state of Texas. This book re-counts a twelve-year period when we bounced back and forth between summers in Oregon and winters in Texas and includes a large cast of characters and friends that contributed to many, many adventures during that time.

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