CURRENT MISSION

on a mission to buy a boat!!!

ABOUT ME

31 years of age. Grew up in California, the son of two collage professors. Traveled extensively as my mother is a travel-o-pile, that is she is a fundamentally unsettled soul constantly on the move. I may have a bit of it myself. We spent three months of every summer living in a small cottage on the island of Quardra up in British Columbia Canada. It is a beautiful place and very dear to me. I went to collage in Los Angeles and one you at the University of Exeter in Devon county, England. I trained as an actor and was deeply involved in the theater for a number of years. In 2002 I got a work visa to the UK and began an apprenticeship in traditional wooden boat building at the yard of Camper & Nicholson in Gosport. When I was born my parents were living on a boat and I grew up sailing in San Fran bay and else were. I then finished my apprenticeship at a yard in Massachusetts were I built two boats from lofting to launch and then restored and repaired numerous others.

I account myself to be friendly, personable and easy to get along with. I am a kind person with a strong sense of patience. I have no love of war nor conflict yet strong political beliefs. My god in nature, she supplies all the mystery I could ever want.

PHILOSOPHY

Try and keep it simple, I focus more on the present and less on the future. My love is for the natural world. I find much of human action destroying what I find most beautiful in the world. I am drained by large crowds and empowered by sublime landscapes. I just go step by step. "Follow your bliss"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to this organization and have not participated at this point

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

non yet

Interests

I am an avid photographer and pinter. I enjoy a good book. I like sailing, swimming, SCUB, snorkeling, backpacking, hiking, history, cooking (most of the time). I quite enjoy dancing and a good party now and then. Friends and family.

• books
• theater
• folklore
• performing arts
• acting
• beauty
• dancing
• cooking
• partying
• boating
• traveling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• snorkeling
• sailing
• swimming
• history
• working visa

Music, Movies, and Books

At the moment I am listening to a lot of america folk and alternative but my music taste is vast and open. I find much rap and hip hop to be too aggressive for my taste. Modern country sounds contrived to me, I keep it at Hank, Willy and Waylon. I think hard alternative rock sometime captures the modern world better then any other music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I account myself lucky to have lived as I have to this point. I have had the opportunity to sail transatlantic, live abroad, love brilliantly smart people, feel the transcendence of giving a good performance. I have been given life twice, once by my mother and once upon the operating table. I have created things that combined the aesthetic beauty of form, tradition, elegance and wood. It is deeply satisfying to launch a vessel you have spent nearly 14 months creating. I think, in a way it is like giving birth, or at lest as close as a man can understand?

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm not sure what I can teach... I have skills which I would be happy to teach, sailing, photographer and carpentry. Maybe even acting or some aspect of the theater. I am quite open to sharing ideas of all sorts. I will write more here as time goes on and find out more of how this program pans out.

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Finland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Greece, United Kingdom, United States

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