About the book: 1962 / Klimenchenko visited different countries, observed other people's lives. Wanting to talk about new impressions, Yu. Klimenchenko began writing in 1938. He collaborated in the magazine “Koster”, often sending his correspondence from abroad. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War found the ship on which Yuri Klimenchenko sailed in the German port of Stettin. The sailor spent four painful years in the fascist Wilzburg prison camp. Returning to his homeland, he again took up his favorite job at sea, and soon a pen was again requested in his hand. In 1954, Klimenchenko’s first book was published - the story “The True Course”, and then a collection of stories “The Open Sea”, essays “Baltic - Neva - Lena”, “The Unfurled Flag”, the novel “Distance Navigator”. Yuri Dmitrievich Klimenchenko still does not leave the bridge and sails as a captain. He is a member of the Union of Soviet Writers. The story “The Uncomfortable Sea” is written on factual material from one of the ship crossings, of which the author was a participant..