I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

In 1841 he opened his first yard in Newburyport and moved to East Boston in 1845 building substantial packet ships for the Atlantic emigrant route. His house in East Boston is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ocean Monarch was lost to fire on 28 August 1848 soon after leaving Liverpool and within sight of Wales; over 170 of the passengers and crew periDonald McKayd.

His house in East Boston is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1841 he opened his first yard in Newburyport and moved to East Boston in 1845 building substantial packet ships for the Atlantic emigrant route. In 1826 he moved to New York working for shipbuilders Brown & Bell and Isaac Webb.