Captain Doug Edmonds is a resident of Mobile, Alabama where he spends time with his family, friends, and many animals. Doug has been a Merchant Mariner for 15 years and a pilot/captain for 10 of those years. He spends a majority of his time piloting his towboat on the Intracoastal Waterway from Florida to Texas and on the Lower Mississippi River. The idea of Doug the Tug came from encouragement of his family to write down his stories and adventures he experienced on the water. After losing interest in writing daily in his journal, he began using the things he experienced in life and while working on the water to create his stories. Whenever you see a towboat, give them the universal “Toot” your horn signal. You never know, it may be Captain Doug blowing the horn.
Follow Doug the Tug as he begins his “big tug life” working in the harbor and making new friends. Doug the Tug is a fun and educational series of books that deals with real-life situations and teaches kids and adults new navigation terms. The New Tug is the first book in the series so get ready for more great adventures to come soon. Buy Now!
Doug the Tug Gets a New Captain is the second book in a new series that is fun and educational. Kids and adults will learn new vocabulary words from the nautical vocabulary in the front of the book with some of them being used in the book. Who do you think of when you hear about a Captain of a boat? You may be surprised of how many women are Captains of boats and ships now. Kids will learn that just because a job is a dominated by males that it does not mean a woman cannot do it and do it better.Buy Now!