Capt Nat

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Occupation Pilgrim
Location on or near saltwater, somewhere between Eastport ME and Key West FL
Introduction Born one century too late, but making the best of it. I have the most wonderful family a person could have. As I get older, I do what I can to simplify...when I am called I'd like to leave this world the way I entered, owing and owning nothing.
Interests family, clean air, clean water, clean earth, family farms, good food, cooking, sustainability, wooden boats, boats propelled by oar - wind - electricity, boat designs by, Phil Bolger, Graham Byrnes, Arch Davis, Sam Devlin, Paul Fisher, Tom Hill, Graeme King, Joel White, et al, old John Deere tractors, public radio and tv, domestic travel, Doctor Snuggles, history, the golden rule, accountability
Favorite Movies The Riddle of the Sands, The African Queen, The Petrified Forest, Cool Hand Luke, The Sterile Cuckoo, Chocolat, Little Miss Sunshine, Emperor of the North Pole
Favorite Music Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Diana Krall, Bill Staines, Elvis Presley, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Guy Davis, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jimmy Buffet, Ani DiFranco, Isaac Stern, The Beatles, Merle Haggard, Dan Hicks, Toshi Reagon, Jonathan Edwards, Abigail Washburn, Stacey Kent, Lyle Lovett, Woody Guthrie, Patti Page, Patterson Hood, James Taylor, The Rolling Stones ('65-'75), Jeffrey Foucault
Favorite Books Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Understanding Wood: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology by R. Bruce Hoadley, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, Sailing Three Oceans: Building and Sailing Schooner Appledore by Herbert and Doris Smith, Eastward: A Maine Cruise in a Friendship Sloop by Roger F. Duncan, North by Northeast by Ray Ellis & Walter Cronkite, A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau