New friends at Bay Springs.
We were tied up behind a big Catamaran named Kaleidoscope. The Owner/Captain is a nice fellow, he had actually built this boat with his own hands, all alone. Clyde shared pictures of him building it in his backyard in Riverside,California. He'd never built a boat before but had done a lot of welding.
First building a scale model and hung it in his garage, then building the boat by transposing the measurements. He said once he finished it was cut into 3 pieces and loaded on trucks then took it to Longbeach, CA and put back in the water where he welded it all back together. Then he finished out the interior.
Clyde took it to Cabo San Lucas where he used it as a charter boat to take out corporate types whale watching. 10 years of that he had made enough money and quit.
Now he's in Mississippi and ripping out the old charter boat interior and making a nice home out of it. Kaleidoscope has 2 elevators running between three levels.
Interesting guy. We became good friends quickly.
We were tied up behind a big Catamaran named Kaleidoscope. The Owner/Captain is a nice fellow, he had actually built this boat with his own hands, all alone. Clyde shared pictures of him building it in his backyard in Riverside,California. He'd never built a boat before but had done a lot of welding.
First building a scale model and hung it in his garage, then building the boat by transposing the measurements. He said once he finished it was cut into 3 pieces and loaded on trucks then took it to Longbeach, CA and put back in the water where he welded it all back together. Then he finished out the interior.
Clyde took it to Cabo San Lucas where he used it as a charter boat to take out corporate types whale watching. 10 years of that he had made enough money and quit.
Now he's in Mississippi and ripping out the old charter boat interior and making a nice home out of it. Kaleidoscope has 2 elevators running between three levels.
Interesting guy. We became good friends quickly.
Clyde's plans were to leave our part of the world and go to Central America. He was spending a year at Bay Springs rebuilding the interior all alone and did a beautiful job.
Then it was Clyde's time to go; his friend Kirk had flown in from California to assist in taking Kaleidoscope back to Central America where he would rejoin his bride, Mia.The above pic is Kirk and Clyde's dog Kaiser.
Then he disappeared into the fog.
Hope we meet again.
Hope we meet again.
