Renegade - Allow me to introduce myself!
Sept 22, 2016 10:15:28 GMT 7
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Post by renegade on Sept 22, 2016 10:15:28 GMT 7
Howdy everybody, I'm Nick, but most folks just call me Renegade.
I have been a truck driver for a lot of years, Currently I own my own truck and trailer and haul heavy equipment.
Everywhere I go, I take my best buddy Dexter with me:
I even have put together a fairly popular YouTube show where I document my adventures and give tours of the machines I haul.
I have a lot of fun with it and doing the show has allowed me to practice my true passion which is film making.
This brings me to last Christmas, I was sitting up at my dad's house visiting him over Christmas, and I wound up coming across this video.
It awoke something deep within me that had been buried for quite some time.
When I was a boy I spent every moment I could with my Grandpa Don
But before he was Grandpa Don, he was Sergeant Donald F La Duke of the US Army Air Force.
Grandpa fought in the Phillipines going in through Leyte Gulf and fighting with the forces that made the plunge up to Manila where he spent the duration of the war.
He came home to raise 3 sons and a daughter (my mom) and in 1962 he built a boat from a set of plans, a Glen-L "Sea Knight" 18' cabin cruiser.
I spent much of my childhood on this boat on and off the water.
Then Cancer came, and I had to watch the man who was my personal hero fight like hell just to stay alive. Many days instead of going out and working in the shop or driving around town, we would sit in his living room and watch TV, there we watched old WWII Documentaries and others such as the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau.
All of that left quite an impression on me, and one day grandpa confided in me that he always wanted to return to the Philippines to see if all he had endured there mattered for anything. I was only about 8 years old then, but I told him one day I would build a boat and take him back to the Philippines.
Grandpa Died in 1995, he finally succumbed to cancer. I went on to join the US Navy instead of going to my senior year of high school. I served 99-03 wound up getting hurt, got medically retired from the Navy, came home, got a CDL and started trucking.
Fast forward 13 years, back to Christmas 2015 after watching the SV Delos video that this memory came boiling back to the surface of my mind. I spent the next few days watching all of their videos, and as I became more enthralled I said "I can do this".
It was then I started developing a plan, I started researching boats, and after a couple of months located a 42' Spencer Sloop and made a deal to buy her.
Video tour of the boat:
That brings me to where I am today, planning a Trans Ocean trip to the Philippines and Thailand on my Sailboat.
But that will get a thread all of its own once I get the intro video shot!
Until then, I am saying hello here hoping to meet like minded people.
I have been a truck driver for a lot of years, Currently I own my own truck and trailer and haul heavy equipment.
Everywhere I go, I take my best buddy Dexter with me:
I even have put together a fairly popular YouTube show where I document my adventures and give tours of the machines I haul.
I have a lot of fun with it and doing the show has allowed me to practice my true passion which is film making.
This brings me to last Christmas, I was sitting up at my dad's house visiting him over Christmas, and I wound up coming across this video.
It awoke something deep within me that had been buried for quite some time.
When I was a boy I spent every moment I could with my Grandpa Don
But before he was Grandpa Don, he was Sergeant Donald F La Duke of the US Army Air Force.
Grandpa fought in the Phillipines going in through Leyte Gulf and fighting with the forces that made the plunge up to Manila where he spent the duration of the war.
He came home to raise 3 sons and a daughter (my mom) and in 1962 he built a boat from a set of plans, a Glen-L "Sea Knight" 18' cabin cruiser.
I spent much of my childhood on this boat on and off the water.
Then Cancer came, and I had to watch the man who was my personal hero fight like hell just to stay alive. Many days instead of going out and working in the shop or driving around town, we would sit in his living room and watch TV, there we watched old WWII Documentaries and others such as the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau.
All of that left quite an impression on me, and one day grandpa confided in me that he always wanted to return to the Philippines to see if all he had endured there mattered for anything. I was only about 8 years old then, but I told him one day I would build a boat and take him back to the Philippines.
Grandpa Died in 1995, he finally succumbed to cancer. I went on to join the US Navy instead of going to my senior year of high school. I served 99-03 wound up getting hurt, got medically retired from the Navy, came home, got a CDL and started trucking.
Fast forward 13 years, back to Christmas 2015 after watching the SV Delos video that this memory came boiling back to the surface of my mind. I spent the next few days watching all of their videos, and as I became more enthralled I said "I can do this".
It was then I started developing a plan, I started researching boats, and after a couple of months located a 42' Spencer Sloop and made a deal to buy her.
Video tour of the boat:
That brings me to where I am today, planning a Trans Ocean trip to the Philippines and Thailand on my Sailboat.
But that will get a thread all of its own once I get the intro video shot!
Until then, I am saying hello here hoping to meet like minded people.
