Author Description

The journey begins with Sail Ho!, an evocative memoir of Bisset’s early seafaring days. A young and determined Indentured Apprentice, he embarks on a career aboard a square-rigged sailing ship trading between England and Australia. This volume offers a richly detailed portrayal of the tough and unforgiving world of deep-water sailing, where discipline was strict, work was grueling, and nature was an unrelenting adversary. Bisset recounts the trials of life at sea—storm-lashed decks, long voyages across vast and lonely oceans, and the camaraderie forged in the face of hardship. His accounts of rounding Cape Horn in the teeth of a gale and witnessing the last vestiges of the age of sail before the dominance of steamships provide both historical insight and thrilling adventure.