Gorm

Gorm was Tung's father and Claire's husband. He disappeared years ago, and at first his family worried that he had perished at sea, like Mori's late husband. It became clear eventually that he had not died but instead had abandoned his family.

Claire sees that in hindsight her relationship with Gorm was miserable before he left, and she regrets not having acted on this earlier. Tung frequently wonders what his father would think of his actions, and eventually decides that it doesn't matter, and he must make his own way. Dennis was a friend of Gorm and felt his own degree of betrayal at his abandonment, stepping forward to help raise Tung in his absence.

Gorm once had a boat called the Fortitude. He prized his ship and eventually left the island aboard it, leaving behind the much more neglected boat that Tung later refurbishes.