Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confessions of a Boat Bum | 2014 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 2 | Following Breeze | 2015 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 3 | Free Breeze | 2015 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 4 | Redeeming Breeze | 2016 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 5 | Bahama Breeze | 2016 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 6 | Cool Breeze | 2016 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 7 | True Breeze | 2016 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 8 | Ominous Breeze | 2017 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 9 | Restless Breeze | 2017 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 10 | Enduring Breeze | 2018 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 11 | Benevolent Breeze | 2018 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
| 12 | Cayo Costa Breeze | 2021 | Ed Robinson | Buy |
The Trawler Trash series is Ed Robinson’s main body of work, and it started with Confessions of a Boat Bum (2014). The books follow Breeze, a man who has traded conventional life for a trawler on Florida’s Gulf Coast, where he fishes, drinks, and tries to stay out of trouble. The trouble finds him anyway, and each book sends him into a different kind of scrape along the coast, from smugglers and missing persons to hurricanes and shady real estate deals.
The series has a relaxed, first-person voice that owes more to Jimmy Buffett than to Tom Clancy. Robinson writes about the boating lifestyle with the easy familiarity of someone who actually lives it, and the Florida Gulf Coast setting is as much a character in the books as Breeze himself. Cayo Costa Breeze (2021), the twelfth entry, is the most recent in the series. The Trawler Trash books also spawned two spinoff series: Bluewater Breeze (for open-ocean adventures) and Mountain Breeze (for when Breeze heads inland to the Appalachian mountains).