title: The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
author:  Linda Greenlaw 
description: The term <i>fisherwoman</i> does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/006101351X/${0}">The Perfect Storm</a></i>, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the <i>Hannah Boden</i>, was the sister ship to the doomed <i>Andrea Gail</i>, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. <i>The Hungry Ocean</i>, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
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