Alligator Food

Author of the critically acclaimed memoir FINGERPRINTS...A Coffeehouse Reader, Lew Decker has also written for the sailing magazines ＂Cruising World＂ and ＂Latitudes & Attitudes＂, and for ＂CQ＂, a magazine devoted to the amateur radio community. He spent several years building the forty-foot Norman Cross-designed trimaran ＂Sun Flower＂ and then cruised from California through the Panama Canal and up to the Florida Keys. After working as a professional yacht delivery skipper on the East Coast, he became a charter captain in the Bahamas and in the Virgin Islands. Lew has crossed the Atlantic under sail and at various times in his sailing career has visited nearly every island in the Caribbean. He spent a year hanging around the bars of Key West and still considers the island town to be his spiritual home. A retired middle school teacher, Lew resides in San Diego with his wife Kathleen and an English Springer Spaniel named Riley Dog. ALLIGATOR FOOD is Lew’s first novel.