Abstract:
Community College freshman Joseph Oliver Kuhl plans to trade his car for a sailboat and travel to the South Seas in search of adventure, wahines, cracked crab, etc. Joe’s plans are upset during the Sugarbeet Festival by the self-destructive inclination of the boat and by the flooding of Balona resulting from an “accidental” break in Balona’s levee. Joe’s ambitions to become a famous private eye, psychologist, and published poet are further complicated by the crash of Blip Wufser’s news helicopter onto a Balona street, the apparent kidnapping of heiress Claire Preene, and the re-disappearance of Joe’s father.