Paul Trammell
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Paul Trammell

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Paul Trammell is a solo sailor exploring the world on his 40' cutter Windflower and writing books about his adventures, novels, and self-help books about alcoholism. He is also the host of the podcast Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell. The podcast and more information on his books can be found at paultrammell.com. In his sailing nonfiction, he hopes to share the experiences 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. He promotes living clean and healthy and tries to make the world a better place through his writing. He firmly believes that the environment needs to be better-protected, and education and outdoor experience are keys to achieving this. He also wants to help anyone who is interested to achieve sobriety. When you buy his books, you are supporting these goals too. Paul Trammell 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. 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. 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 is now obsessed with offshore singlehand sailing. Paul has always been an artist, drawing and modeling in clay as a child and painting in oils as an adult. He has been a musician since childhood, and one of his bands toured on a converted school bus, which was the inspiration for Dead Flowers on Wednesday.
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