Boat Bum

This is not a story about someone who grew up around boats and made a miraculous voyage across open oceans. (Think Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebie, Ballentine 1991.)Actually this is a story about an older burned out, Hollywood cab driver with no experience who didnt get into boating till he was forty five. This is the story of a dream realized and the learning experience it became.

I was born in "German Town" near Phill. Pa. On March 2, 1944. The only boy in a family of four, the obvious black sheep. I grew up to be "wonder kind", having four homes and a business in L.A. Before I was thirty five only to realize I had been put on earth to be an artist not a landlord. I got rid it all and went to Europe. That began eight years of homelessness which ended suddenly when I came into a large amount of money, got my life back together, wrote a book, bought a sailboat and left.