David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. His journey takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston in America to the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, then back across the Pacific- to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. Packed with enough ship board hilarity to make the reader literally weep with laughter, Ocean Boulevard and Jumping Ships are probably the funniest maritime-themed books in print today.' Ships Monthly Another seriously funny tale of the young cadet “Windy’s” global misadventures... the laughs are aplenty, but there is also some really top notch writing about the seas, ships and those who sail on them... Gritty and very much based on the realities of life at sea in the late 1970s, this book races along.' Sea Breezes: Worldwide Magazine of Ships and the Seas. This truly absorbing and at times astonishing tale will have you laughing out loud... Windy has an engaging, informative and gripping style... a real page-turner. In Touch Magazine "Ocean Boulevard is an affectionately written biographic account that makes you laugh until you cry. If you only read one book this year make sure this is it!" 'Hawkins Bazarre' (www.hawkin.com) “A hilarious and often bizarre true story.” ABTA Travel Magazine “Windy has documented a period of UK maritime history that is sadly now past. A raunchy and hilarious series of adventures and anecdotes.” The Argus