The Narrator (the Skipper)

The narrator is a 37-year-old businessman and a passionate, highly skilled amateur sailor who has spent sixteen years preparing for this voyage. He is brave, resourceful and calm in crisis: injured and thrown overboard, he still fights his way back to the wheel; he improvises repairs with canvas and hatch covers, hunts down a working pump, and painstakingly calculates the ship's position with a faulty spare compass. …