I actually have a story about him, sorta. I used to live on a sailboat, and going on the ocean from Wilmington, NC to Charleston, SC, I got stuck in a storm due

I actually have a story about him, sorta. I used to live on a sailboat, and going on the ocean from Wilmington, NC to Charleston, SC, I got stuck in a storm due to an engine failure. Long story short (involving bear hugging a metal mast surrounded by lightning strikes), I needed to find a mechanic in Southport, NC. I was referred one and he came by (my engine was from 1967) and showed me what to do. He was an old guy, a grandfather. Nice as hell. He apparently used to work on Ian Fleming’s boat and he shared some funny stories. A couple months later I was passing through the Cape Fear river and stopped by to see how he was doing. He’d had a stroke and wasn’t quite all there.