This website is designed to allow those interested in the fascinating nautical history of the Great Lakes to share with me some of the material I have assembled.

Mary Hartley, writing in the Arts Review of the Belleville Intelligencer, wrote about my more recently published books:

"The Townsend books read like an adventure novel, steeped in reality, and backed up by historically accurate detail. There are thrills and chills, narrow escapes from death, treachery and bravery, and even some buried treasure"

I have tried to keep that sense in the material contained in this website.