The title 66 Hours To Live denotes the typical amount of time Chris would layover between trips offshore lobstering. Having made port that morning, selling the trip and putting the boat to bed, wrapping things up might see him leaving the dock in his rearview mirror by around 2 that afternoon. Including an also typical half-day or so of shore work preparing for the next voyage, the next 66 Hours To Live would find Chris doing exactly that. Due back at the boat by 8 the following third morning, the cycle would repeat itself, Chris and his gang shoving off for another four or five day jaunt to the edge of the Continental Shelf some 130 miles southeast of Newport, Rhode Island.
     Evolving from boy to man as he carved out a livelihood in love with this rugged fishery, Chris’s unconventional lifestyle didn’t stop for a minute when he came ashore between trips. A bona fide wild man with a thirst for pushing himself to the outer limits, Chris’s life has seen its fair share of highs and lows. Struggling with ingrained inner demons, contending with societal conformity, his own quest for success within the industry he chose as a life’s path, as well as eventually starting a family of his own, his complex mind has taken him to the brink on more than one occasion. Now in acceptance of who he is and where he’s been, after nearly three decades obsessed with a dream born during summers on an island in Maine, a vision lobster fishing, and of course the boats he’s toiled over throughout his career, his course has taken a sharp turn toward a destiny that long ago he all but turned his back on.
     A story of one man’s extraordinary voyage in life, 66 Hours To Live captures the essence of who this madman was, is, and will be as he comes to terms with his lot in life. Filled with uniquely captured passages of Chris’s most gripping life experiences, both offshore and in, told in a running chronology, it’s an amazing story of a man some might say is cursed with an almost total recall of his past . . . a past revealing many aspects of a most unusual man.

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