Fiction Express: The Pirate's Secret

One windswept winter's evening Arden Tregorey listens enthralled as his father tells him of his 'golden secret' and of how he once outwitted the notorious one-eared pirate Lambert 'Luggole' Spain. The very next day his father is kidnapped and disappears, so young Arden decides to set off to the Caribbean in search of him.
But how will he travel the 5000 miles of dangerous Atlantic Ocean, and will he succeed in finding his only living relative?