Nat Goodale
Adventures (so far):
Four marvelous children - oldest daughter an Olympic Gold Medalist (Beijing) and now the mother of my grandson Avery (www.annagoodale.com), son Abe, a NOLS wilderness instructor and wooden boat builder (visit www.abegoodale.com), and my sweet and articulate junior and senior girls in high school. Married to my childhood sweetheart and my favorite person in the whole world.
Organic sheep farmer before it was chic. Director to the American Sheep Producers Council, representing all the sheep (and shepherds) in NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, and ME). Founding member of the Maine Lamb Promotion Board.
Leader of a Libertarian Political Action Committee.
Charter Captain, 42' motor yacht, Soper's Hole, West End, British Virgin Islands. Dropped 700 king crab pots at the end of the Aleutian chain, off the Bessie M, a king crabber out of Homer, Alaska. On board as fifth hand and cook.
Cut 100 spruce trees and built a log cabin without hydraulics.
Aircraft salesman. Private pilot, land and sea (float plane and flying boats), instrument rated. Had privilege of flying in the navigator's nose cone of the Confederate Air Force's B-17 Flying Fortress. College religion major. Lettered in football and baseball in boarding school and college. Played in National Softball Championship, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Age 11 - saved a younger girl from drowning. Head cater chef. Drove from Maine to Fairbanks, Alaska to Oaxaca, Mexico (and back). Hiked the base of the Annapurna mountain range.
#186 in 1972 draft into the military, Vietnam bound. Would have served but wasn't called. Voted for Nixon twice - no regrets. Motored down the Mekong River (post Vietnam).
President and major stockholder, Dark Harbor Boat Yard. Sole importer and dealer for Norwegian PIONER polyethylene boats.
Now riding horses deep into the Andes mountains of Ecuador. Cuenca is one of the settings in THE MAXIMUM MISTAKE, his third book which includes a breathtaking horse chase scene. Book due to be published in 2016.
Author and publisher of the highly acclaimed, award winning and soon to be best selling novels VACATIONLAND and ONCE UPON A NIGHTMARE.
For more information on anything, please come visit at www.natgoodale.com.
