Paul Trammell

Paul Trammell is a nomadic author who lives on a sailboat, seeking out adventure, solitude, and creativity, soaking up natural beauty outside the boat, and delving into the mysterious world of words when inside. He was born in Dallas Texas in 1970, then briefly lived in Belcourt, North Dakota, followed by New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. He went to school (third grade through high school) in West Virginia and went to college at FIT in Melbourne Florida where he earned a BS in Biology. He then went to WVU in West Virginia where he earned a MS in Biology. Paul then taught 9th grade Biology and Algebra for one year in Connecticut at the Cheshire Academy. Dismayed at teaching ninth grade, he then moved back to West Virginia where he worked as a roofer for six months before moving back to Florida, to St Augustine, to chase his dream of being a musician. Paul played bass, then electric guitar, in many bands for the next 20 years, writing much of the music they played. During this time, he mostly worked as a carpenter, but was also a realtor, a bicycle mechanic, and an environmental consultant. Paul struggled with alcohol and marijuana most of his life, but in 2015, he quit drinking. In 2016, he quit smoking weed. This is when he started writing seriously, and his career move was inspired by the success of his first book "Alcoholics Not Anonymous." In 2016 he bought a 30' sailboat and began his cruising life. In 2019 he sold his house, bought Windflower, and sailed away for good. Paul has always been an adventurer and outdoor-enthusiast, enjoying snow skiing, mountain biking, canoeing, camping, spelunking, sailing, scuba diving... He has been a surfer since college at FIT, and has surfed in Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Chile, The Bahamas, and Ireland. Later in life, sailing came to dominate his sporting life and became a means to surf, dive, and spearfish. In his sailing nonfiction, he shares the experience with his readers and let them feel what it is like to sail alone on the ocean, explore remote and uninhabited islands, dive beneath the surface, surf tropical reef-breaks, spearfish, encounter sharks, sail through thunderstorms at sea, and be immersed the beauty of the natural world. Paul was exposed to sailing as a child by his father, but didn't get serious about sailing until he quit drinking in 2015, when he took up sailing as both a reward for sobriety and as a substitute to fill the hole that drinking left in his life. He now lives and writes full-time on his sailboat, usually in the tropics, always somewhere beautiful and magical.