title: Between Two Harbors: Reflections of a Catalina Island Harbormaster
author:  Doug Oudin 
description: Doug Oudin, author of 'Between Two Harbors, Reflections of a Catalina Island Harbormaster' (his memoir), and 'Five Weeks to Jamaica', a seafaring novel, is a former harbormaster on Catalina Island. He wrote a column for the Catalina Island Newspaper for twenty-one years, and also wrote for the Log Newspaper. Now living in Grants Pass, Oregon, he has been married to the love of his life, Maureen for thirty-eight years. He has two sons, Trevor and Troy. The sea is his earthly passion.
zlib_text: _Dead Reckoning -_ _a Nantasket Novella_
  
    
  
  **Part One- About Ten Years Ago**
  
   **Tuesday -** _6:15 AM_
  
  I drove past the entrance to the high school and out onto the gravel beach at
  the end of the road, overlooking Hull Gut. I like to finish my coffee there,
  before I head in to work in the morning. To my left, a commuter boat crossed
  the bay from Quincy, coming to get the people on Pemberton Pier, waiting in
  their suits and skirts, and take them on to their various offices and cubicles
  in Boston. A lobster boat with a string of traps perched on its stern rocked
  patiently in the ferry’s wake, the sternman consciously looking away. Straight
  ahead, on the other side of the gut, Peddock’s Island hunkered, so close, yet
  all but abandoned. I turned to take in Boston Harbor with its many islands,
  spread to my right across Nantasket Roads. The city itself, office buildings
  lifting through the haze, formed a backdrop, a wall between the worlds of land
  and water.
  
  The town of Hull definitely 