Title
Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican,Used
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Saturday, Labor Day weekend, 1951, dawned mild and cloudless over Montauk. Hundreds of passengers tumbled from the Long Island Rail Roads weekend express train, the Fishermans Special, when it pulled in from New York City. The weather only confirmed the postwar optimism of the bluecollar workers who had thronged to this fishing village for a holiday of deepsea angling.In America, in 1951, it was easy to believe that anyone could make money and enjoy the good life, and no place suited that mood better than a fishing town. The Montauk fishing business was booming. The dock the arriving anglers swarmed over had been named, without a trace of selfconsciousness, Fishangrila, and the waiting fishing boat captains could see no obstacle to a record weekend.Maybe it was naive optimism that propelled Captain Eddie Carroll away from the dock that morning with sixtytwo passengers aboard his fishing boat Pelican, some thirty more than safe capacity. He was everyones favorite skipper, a handsome World War II veteran with an easy manner, an endless supply of fish and war stories, a sturdy fortytwofoot boat, newly rebuilt engines, and an uncanny ability to find good fishing. In his pocket that day he carried the ring that he would soon slip on the finger of his Swedish bridetobe.But Eddies luck was about to run out. Even as the Pelican cut its outgoing swath through the sunspangled Atlantic, a jetstream trough of Arctic air high overhead, undetected by forecasters, was pressing down on the pool of warm air beneath it like water building behind a dam. The Pelican and fortyfive people aboard, including Captain Carroll himself, would never return to shore.Dark Noon is a suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking sea story. Its also a journey back to the America of the early 1950s, when a laborer could buy a roundtrip train ticket from Queens to Montauk and fish all day with Captain Eddie for $8.00. The Pelican's passengers, like postwar America itself, were blinded by hope. They baited their hooks and waited, wondering what they would find in the deep and shining waters of the Atlantic, unaware of the dark storm gathering overhead.Tom Clavin was editor of the East Hampton Independent and the Southampton Independent, two of the countrys most awardwinning weeklies, for ten years. In addition to fifteen years writing for the New York Times, he has authored numerous articles appearing in such periodicals as Reader's Digest, Golf Magazine, Parade, and Family Circle. Mr. Clavin has written and edited hundreds of pieces on fishing and boating.
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