About the Authors

The authors, from left to right: Peter Jinks, Alan Boreham, and Bob Rossiter, at a reunion in the Harbor Pub in Waikiki, 1996

Photo by Patricia Rossiter

Peter Jinks left his home in the south of England at seventeen to immigrate to Australia. By the time he met Bob and Alan, he had spent almost half his life on the road. When he was short of cash, he started a window-cleaning business in Denmark, worked as a freelance photographer in South America, Russia, and Japan, and as a crocodile hunter in Costa Rica.

Back in Sydney, Peter went from selling end-of-line shoes for cash in the local flea market to a partnership in two top-grossing city shoe stores. Along the way, Peter was featured for a time as the Foster’s Man in Foster’s Lager television commercials and has done other acting parts.

Married in 1989, Peter and his wife raised two daughters, and lived with them in the Cook Islands and Bolivia while the girls were still in school. Still an ardent traveler, Peter lives at Bondi Beach in Sydney, where he owns a real estate consultancy, specializing as a buyer’s agent for top-end residential properties.

Alan Boreham emigrated from England to Canada with his family when he was two. He grew up on Vancouver Island off the west coast, spending a lot of time on the water with his father and friends. After completing a degree in civil engineering at UBC in Vancouver, he began his travels with a trip back to England. Following three years of work, he left on an offshore training course bound from Vancouver for Hawaii, and then worked his way across the South Pacific on sailing yachts for more than a year.

Alan returned to Vancouver in 1983 to resume his career in fisheries and the environment, which ranged from building salmon hatcheries and managing programs for Aboriginal fishers, to participating as Canada’s national correspondent for the Canada-U.S.A. Pacific Salmon Commission. He also served for ten years as a director of Cooper Boating, Canada’s largest sailing school and yacht-charter company, and volunteered with the Canadian Yachting Association to train sailing instructors.

Retired in 2010, Alan lives and writes in North Vancouver.

 “Hollywood” Bob Rossiter is a New Zealander and had a history of life on the sea. From his home in Auckland, he made his way as a fisherman, sailor, and ferryboat captain. Bob spent time around the Polynesian islands, both as a fishing guide and a sailor, before moving to Marina del Rey, California, to work as a shipwright on yachts of the Hollywood set. There he met distinguished actor Hal Holbrook, leading to their voyage across the Pacific to New Zealand.

Bob had a marine services business in Hawaii for many years. From this base of operations he also worked as a delivery skipper, transporting yachts between Hawaii and California and from Hawaii to Vancouver, Alaska, and Japan. While in Hawaii, Bob studied acting and had parts in television commercials filmed there.

Bob retired from full-time marine work in 1995 and moved with his American wife to the Arkansas countryside where he did some consulting work. He passed away there in 2021, leaving his two coauthors to realize their collective vision for their novel, Two if by Sea.