Sea Stories
Special Events
From time to time I have worked for or with well known people.
These occasions are always full of surprises and are always
really fun. More pictures will be
added as I have time to scan other events.
The pictures on this page are cropped from a full size picture which
gives a better perspective to what is being shown. To see a picture
full size, simply click on the picture and it
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Jessica Simpson and her then husband Nick LaChey
were our guests. We went
to Paradise Cove on a 4th of July.
You remember Jessica. She played Daisy Duke on the remake
of the Dukes of Hazard. She will always be remembered
for her comments about Chicken of the Sea being chicken
not tuna.
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Here is Nick Lechey on the same July 4th charter.
It was really a fun day!
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Drew Carey and his party were guests on a day trip to Catalina.
Great group of people.
Ahmed Zappa, son
of Frank Zappa is on the right.
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Diva Zappa, daughter
of Frank Zappa was one of Drew's guests. She had a really
great time helming a 31 knot 66 foot boat.
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I spent a week with Clint Eastwood
filming Flags of Our Father on SS Lane Victory. I wasn't
in the film and didn't meet him personally, but worked on ship
as an AB watchstander getting underway for some of their action
shots.
Click on the photo on the left to see him climbing down the
boarding ropes to experience firsthand what if felt like.
Very impressive!
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It was great fun watching him work in his cool under control manner.
He did very few second takes.
The picture on the right is one of my favorites. It reminds
me of the many scenes in his movies where he scratches his head.
He's not acting; he likes to scratch his head.
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The author of Flags of our Father is James Bradley,
shown here on
location at the
shooting of the film.
On the right, Clint Eastwood is autographing
pictures for James.
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I managed Catherine Bell's Azimut 46 for four months. My crew and
I delivered it from Lake Union in Seattle to Marina del Rey, CA.
On the left is Catherine making an exotic
coffee drink in the galley of Entheos in Paradise Cove, Malibu.
On the right is Catherine during a day trip to Catalina.
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You remember Catherine Bell. She starred in JAG as Colonel Mac.
She has received numerous awards from the Marines for
boosting female enrollment into the Marines as a result
of her role in JAG.
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I am also an airline pilot, type rated in Learjet and Boeing 737.
I flew the Dallas Cowboy
Cheerleaders to Stuttgart Arkansas for the Duck Calling & Duck Gumbo
contest for Jerry Jones.
I flew the Dallas Cowboys to many charity basketball games all
over Texas. I'm 6' 4". The fellow to my left is Too Tall Jones.
He is big!! It was a tight squeeze but we got him into the Learjet
I managed and was captain for a year, N437AC.
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I flew Willie Nelson and his wife from Austin to Las Vegas for
him to sing one song at a special event. While waiting at the
airport, I saw many world famous entertainers participating in
the same event.
The night I passed my FAA check ride for my Boeing 737 Captain
rating was one of the happiest in my life. I flew N82SW for over
an hour doing a variety of one engine landings and other emergency
operations for the FAA inspector observing me.
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In September of 1985 I flew my Grob 103 two place glider from
Taos, New Mexico to Salida, Colorado and back in 5 hours,
31 minutes and 9 seconds, setting a US National record for
speed on an out and return course of 300 km. The total straight
line distance was 467.8 km (32.2 km short of the 500 km mark).
The actual distance flown was significantly more than 500 km.
The certificate is on the left and the cover sheet of a book
of documentation for the flight is on the right. We had a barograph
onboard recording that we never landed during the 467 km flight.
We used continuous roll film photographs to document the takeoff,
turn in Salida, Kansas and return landing in Taos, New Mexico.
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I was asked to help organize the HEES (Hydrocarbon Evaluation
and Economic Symposium) for the SPE (Society of Petroleum
Engineers) four different times. The session is attended
by 5,000 engineers and economists interested in the future of oil
pricing and production costs. I was the overall Symposium
Chairman in my last year. It was quite an honor.
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My keynote speaker was R. O. Anderson, one of the founders of
Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). R. O. was quite an articulate
speaker on many points of interest.
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