Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack.
With a rickety boat and a heavily restricted whale-hunting licence, Gus sets out to exact his revenge. Along the way, Gus keeps an online journal -- a blog -- to keep the world informed about is misfit crew, his clashes with pirates, his near-fatal incarceration and his infatuation with a certain island princess.
