Wayne Tanguay is the son of a 1930s era pilot and federal game warden who patrolled many of the remote areas of Maine. Although raised in the Southern United States, Wayne made yearly visits to relatives living in Southern Maine. A 1969 University of Maine graduate with a degree in biology, he became interested in fresh- and saltwater ecology. Wayne finally relocated from Massachusetts to Maine in 1972. Living very close to the ocean, he purchased his first boat in 1975. Enjoying the ocean, he attained his one-hundred-ton master's license around fifteen years ago and has cruised the Eastern Seaboard from the Montauk, New York, to the coast of Maine. At home on the ocean, he started fishing for lobsters and has held a lobster license since 1990. An avid salt- and freshwater fisherman, he started his own successful charter business around twenty years ago. Many of the stories and events that took place during those years inspired this story.
