four sentence types in "Caught By The Sea"

Simple: “In my innocence and ignorance I put the papers and magazines down and drove up the coast north of Los Angeles and went to a harbor.” (p.18)
Explanation: This sentence has one subject and three verbs, and the three verbs are related to the noun, so it would consider as an independent clause.

Complex: “The Sea was there, deep cobalt, immense, rising like a great saucer to the blue horizon, where it was impossible to see a defining line between water and sky.”(p.1)
Explanation: This sentence is complex sentence because it has one independent and one dependent clause. The independent clause is “The Sea was…”and the dependent clause, “…, where it was…” is adverbial clause that describes place.

Compound: “She has a tiny cabin less than five feet high, a small wooden table and two bunks, a little alcohol stove, a head (toilet) up in the middle of the forepeak; and (best of all) she was made of fiberglass. (p.22)
Explanation: The sentence has two independent clauses; the author uses coordinating conjunctions to connect these two clauses.

Compound complex: “I did not see how she could possibly have survived the wave but I opened my eyes and put the boards in and blocked the companionway and looked at my watch.” (p.58)
Explanation: there are two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The two independent clauses are using coordinating conjunction to connect together, and the dependent clause is a noun clause.

Caught by the Sea

“That night I decided: Someday I would try the one great passage of the sailor’s world. Someday I would try to sail around Cape Horn.”

I envy his bravery and he follows his dream through future. A lot of people wanted to succeed their dreams, but most of them gave up on their dreams because of facing the reality: they have to make a living and take care of their family.