Smokey DaFino, is a carefree, yet very undisciplined sailor serving in the Post-Vietnam Navy, that could be a character straight out of a Charles Bukowski novel in Deck Ape: Memoirs Of The ñHighî Seas & Beyond. While waiting out his enlistment to end, heÍs enjoying a life of wine, women, song...and weed. But that suddenly ends when he finds himself being the only truthful - and then targeted - witness in the assault of a fellow deckhand by the unbalanced Captain of the ship he is serving on.