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Moon Landing and missed conversations
Short story: I was a life long boater before selling my last cruiser 3 years ago. I spent an awful lot of time cruising the waters of Washington State and British Columbia. Over the years I came across John Wayne on his boat "Wild Goose" and Johnny Carson on his boat "Serengeti" many times. The waters I loved were also areas they loved. But, there was one person I saw often not knowing the historical importance of. There is a marina on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands that my yacht club rented a portion of for a summer "outstation". I spent many days and nights enjoying this little piece of heaven. Going from my boat to shore required walking a ways down the dock and past many of the regularly moored boats. There was an older kinda small guy who owned one of the boats I walked past often. I remember we had a "nodding" relationship. Walking past each other we would just say "howdy" and go ony our way. Never really stopping to have a conversation. His boat was a nice "fast trawler" style boat named "Apogee". About a 45-48 footer. I admired his boat. Found out later his name was Buzz Aldrin. Damn! I sure wish I had taken the time to be more social..... Jim
2005 Windveil Blue Premium Mustang Convertible
2008 Honda GL1800/California Sidecar Trike, SOLD
2014 Platinum Silver Satin Spyder RTL, SOLD
Semper Fi
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Wow! Who knew? Very cool.
Concur, Bob: astronauts are amazing. When you look at who they are, and where they came from, having a warriors bravery goes with the job. Hot Rod magazine did a story a while back on them. They loved fast cars(mostly corvettes), and anything exciting.
Joe Meyer
Dealer for the Outlaw/ROLO laser Alignment system
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I think that I'll keep the theme rolling along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4
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