Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family
of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the
multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks.
Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the
family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks.
Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's
livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of
Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water
sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it.
Hatteras
Blues is their story--a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy
Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and
luck as capricious as the weather.