Scratch the Boatyard Cat

by Stephen Jones

Scratch, a feral cat, finds a home with Josh aboard Prudence, an old wooden boat in an old-fashioned boatyard. Along with witnessing the everyday goings-on of the yard, Scratch and Josh learn that they must share the waterfront with others, both friendly and otherwise.

56 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Stephen Jones is owner of West Mystic Wooden Boat Company, which repairs and builds wooden boats of all sorts, and author of eight other books, including Turpin, Drifting, Backwaters, and Harbor of Refuge, recently reissued in paperback. In a long career spent with and on boats, he served in the Coast Guard, worked on lobster boats, and sailed a schooner in the West Indies. For the last 30 years he has been on the University of Connecticut's maritime branch faculty, where he has taught courses on literature, the environment, and aspects of the sea.