About the book: 2003 / Most of the stories from this book can be found on the Internet. One day one of them even won the online literature competition "Teneta 2002". In the book they are only collected under one cover and are accompanied by a foreword by Viktor Silchenko and a glossary of maritime terms. That is, for a lover of paper media. After the book came out of print, the following features were noticed: * It has a terribly dirty cover, which must be immediately wrapped in something. Printers took too literally the author's desire to display a pack of "Belomor".* It is in brackets and will not crumble after the first reading.* It made the captains imprisoned in the cell of the Kherson prison laugh uncontrollably, who were awaiting trial for a transport accident.* Women who were careless they began to read the story “Kherson-Batumi” with a kettle put on the fire, the kettles boiled over and burned out, even if they had whistles.* One copy of it went around the Cape of Good Hope.* It was written about ten years by an active sailor, not a philologist.* Map on the cover is not in the Mercator projection, and it is forbidden to use it for navigation, although sailors have a saying “we are walking along the Belomor pack".