Editorial Reviews. Review ...one unforgettable voyage...under a captain whose words may echo in your mind and whose attitude may inform your spirit for the rest of your life. (The Times (UK)) An impressive writer. Like Fitzgerald, Hayden is a romantic. His writing about the sea evokes echoes of Conrad and McFee, - A man who ran away to the sea at a young age, became captain of his own boat at 18-20 yrs old, later became an actor in Hollywood but always returned to the sea, sailing to romantic far off places.