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While researching the history Northeast Florida, Joseph discovered a history
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Articles by
Nautical Adventure Author
St. Augustine, Florida
Son of
a Pirate
I have not told many this story but I will now as I
think of it more frequently as I grow older.
In 1961 I sailed into
St. Augustine ,
Florida
with my father who was captain of the shrimp trawler "Rodonsetta". We came from
Key West
to fish the local shrimp grounds. It was the summer so I had no schooling to
worry with and would go to sea with Dad.
My mother had escaped him some years before so now my
care was placed with first one of his female friends then another. One night
while he was away to the Canaveral shrimp grounds, I woke up alone. I never saw
his girl friend again and only saw him one other time the next year after the
O'Steen family took me in. I was lucky for an eleven-year-old lad.
I did hear about him a few years later. He had gone
to the west coast of
Florida
; gone on a drinking binge and sold the boat he was captain of at the time. The
Feds were looking for him for piracy. It seems the vessel was not his...I guess
that makes me the son of a Pirate...lol. Any way it was the best thing for me
as I stayed with the O’Steen s until I joined the navy. That is when I took
their name.
So there you are, I've bared me soul and shared my
secrete. Perhaps now that I think of it that may be why I am drawn to the
history of piracy.
Joseph L. O'Steen,
writer and son of a Pirate
ps: the Pirate’s name was Jefferson Hayes
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Why I Write?
I fell in love with the sea at an early age
and have always admired the men and ships of the age of sail. I consumed
books more quickly than they could be written and published. While waiting
for Alexander Kent’s Second to None to
be published. my wife, Chris,
persuaded me to write my own sea stories. At about the same time as her
suggestion a I became one of eight members of the Yahoo Bolitho who
began the Hart of Oaks role-playing site online We began as British naval
officers waiting for orders. I created Nathan Beauchamp, a British Naval
officer in 1803. Soon the role-playing was not enough, so I researched
British naval histories and started to write the Nathan Beauchamp series.
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