Saturday, March 9, 2024

chapter 10 boarded by Pilot in the middle of the night book title 40 years on a hook with a pirates of San Francisco Bay buy pirate chaplain Peter of Sausalito

Chapter 8 or 9 of my work in progress 40 years on a hook with the Pirates of San Francisco Bay and in this chapter boarded by a pirate. There was a man who came into the Anchorage off of Sausalito and he was clean cut looking and hard-working looking and tool belt and all kind of guy really short hair good to go had a beautiful looking woman on his boat I think introduced her as a school teacher and he asked if I had any anchors for sale knowing that I was a salvager and I brought him the perfect anchor exactly like the one he lost and I salvaged it and he flipped out and accused me of stealing his anchor that he had lost and well long story short if there is an anchor lost without a buoy, it is fair game. I watched hey Booey until it broke off and was clean underwater the anchor line and I being a dragon for anchors type of guy waited politely to what this seemed to be an abandoned little buoy little marker and not much of anything maybe even just a small fender and then those wasn't no show and so I hook the anchor and couldn't get it up so I hired Jesse a local anchor out at the time with with a motor skiff to power the anchor out and I salvaged it from being a marine Hazard so to speak. Well in lo and behold when I showed him the anchor again he accused me of stealing it and basically being stalking me after that and mocking me when I came to the dingy doc or skiff Landing and it seemed endless is taunting and threatening and after one long day busking on the Dock of the Bay and having a few drinks to unwind at the buck doc and when I went out to my boat and could offshore while in a deep sleep and enhanced by a few drinks to help relieve my arthritis. This pirate boarded my ship in the middle of the night and while I was asleep and Unchained my boat from its anchor Mooring and sent me a drift and I woke up in the middle of the night to a bright shining light in the window in front of me on my ship and I thought it was the Coast Guard with a spotlight on me in the middle of the night and I thought what would they be doing with me in the middle of the night and for usually the Coast Guard only stops vessels that are underway and not anchored or moored for they don't have to stop and anchor or more the best because they're already stopped and so they leave us alone unless somebody grievously complains and even that and when I blink my eyes don't look closer after getting up and it was somebody's back porch light on Tiburon Island and I was bumping up against their porch built over the bay and I was gently bumping up against it like I was tied up to a a dock and it was a miracle there was no wind it looked like a slack tied and the Rascal head cut a racing motor boat hole that I had salvaged and cut her the drift with no engine on it of course and couldn't find my skiff line to cut my skiff line for my dinghy with my little two and a half horse seagull motor made in Britain and so I used my little dinghy with a little tiny motor and pulled this almost 50 ft Ferro cement boat away from the dock or a porch and out to where it was before and I went to the perpetrators boat and he was surprised that I had my boat back in its place after he set it adrift and he looked like he was praying with his hands clapped between his legs and was saying something like that he was sorry or something and I would say sorry for being caught like Judas is scary it was and where Peter denied Christ three times before the cock and he truly repented and it was just like he had a panic attack for Jesus and told him prior that his statement that he was the son of God was the rock that the church would be built on and not on Peter but on the Rock Jesus for two different Greek words for rock or use and that's another story. Anyways if I recall he said he was sorry and that he was had some illness or something or or he was dying of something type of story right and I told him that in that burst of angry that he should have died sooner rather than cut my boat loose and of course that's figurative. I had called the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard just said go to the office and file an official report and I didn't have time to do that for I am on anchor out time and we don't have time to go to court and hassle with stuff like that and the sauce it up please never take a report and even won't till this day unless the offense is over $2,000 and you can't even complain on their website file a complaint personally on the website unless the damage is succeeded $2,000 and that's another story welcome to the Real World. So I let it go and I thought how can I make peace with this man he honestly thinks I stole his anchor he didn't even offer me Salvage rights for the anchor and just flipped off and blew it in front of his beautiful school teacher lady friend on his boat and I've never seen any lady on his boat since. So around Christmas time I had previously salvaged an anchor similar to the one that he accused me of being a thief for her and it wasn't as big but it was the same plow anchor and I left it on the deck of his boat around Christmas time as a gift if I recall to make peace without talking to him without confronting him or making him feel guilty or groveling I just left him a gift unconditionally. He was so grateful and surprised and so happy that I had done such a gesture and basically because the anchor was the same style and just smaller you might say I got my cut out of 10 lb of the anchor of which was around a 40 pounder and I gave him a 30 pounder I think and but the gist of the story is by giving my worst enemy and pirate a gift he came over with hot coffee brought me hot coffee and well at the same time thanking me and we've never had a problem since and so the lesson I learned was when nothing else works do something unconditionally for that person if for nothing more than even a gesture or emotion and you may be surprised by response. If you like my rap go to cash app Cajifog$ for tips and gestures imagine if everybody took the dollar! I don't need any money I have everything I basically need except a woman and but I use my own and all don't need money to buy food for our church fellowship and picnic every afternoon and Sausalito at Tempe Park corner of Bridgeway and Napa Street and this coming Sunday and memorial for Chico the man of Sausalito starting at noon and ending with a picnic luncheon in his honor and memory.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Chapter Nine /Forty Years on a Hook with the Pirates of San Francisvo Bay

40 years on a hook other technically I'm into my 40th year and I actually started anchoring out about 1982 or 1983 and part-time and then full-time after 1984 with 3 years in Galilee Harbor and Sausalito of which was one of my worst experiences living on the bay and now has gone into a houseboat Community instead of the original Maritime community that they got their permit for being and needless to say they got the most expensive eviction attorney in Marin County to evict me for $5,000 over a few thousand dollars in back rent of which I was not the only one and but being the only active conservative and Republican type I was not very welcome in Galley Harbor of which was run by liberal Democrats and sellouts on the Anchorage and now is full of mostly non-mariner types with no history on San Francisco Bay and that's another story and in the meanwhile let me hit you to this rough draft of a Monumental book that I'm in the process of writing in no concerns about our worries I should say about spelling grammar and punctuation for this is a proverbial pirate speaking and an outcast by the most infamous pirate in history in my book . My late father-in-law Ernest Nile Kettenhofen retired sea captain for the medicine lines and told me that he's been to Hawaii over 100 times back and forth and during World War II he captained the Liberty ship  in the Mediterranean and claimed to have had both Eisenhower and patton at his Captain's Table and after the war he was appointed to the California state harbors and navigation Commission by the Democrat Republican governor of California Pat Brown and then reappointed by Governor Reagan and eventually was denied being reappointed by Jerry Brown son of Governor Pat Brown who wrote a letter asking his son to reappoint my late father-in-law and he wouldn't do it being too liberal even though my late father-in-law was a liberal Republican and ended up being the chairman of the Vallejo Maritime Academy and one of the most prestigious in the world and which in my book makes him the greatest pirate of the Pacific Ocean and corporately speaking. There are two types of pirates corporate and independent in the system and out of the system and or kicked out of the system and or fleeing from Injustice like the Pirates of the Caribbean who gathered together on the island of Tortuga off Hispaniola which is now Haiti and begin to barbecue the fauna that was released commonly on islands with wild hogs pigs and deer or whatever people have to release and of course domesticated livestock also and the Buccaneers of the island of Tortuga is where the name came from for Buccaneer and French means a barbecuer. I hate punctuation and it interrupts my train of thought and I need to free flow in my dictation memory in making this Epic and Memorial book and tribute to the last surviving free booters, filibusters as French Pirates were called as well as Buccaneers for after the Buccaneers of the island of Tortuga where accused of feeding the Pirates of the Caribbean the Spanish came and invaded their Island and they escaped and were set adrift as the first Buccaneers and out to survive at all costs in a sea of Wars between the Spanish and the English and the Dutch and the Portuguese and the French and it was a free-for-all during the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean of which what really kicked off the gold rush was the sinking of the Spanish gold Fleet that once a year took off for Spain with 13 ships and 12 of the ships Shipwrecked off Florida and to this day people are still finding gold silver doubloons and treasures and at this time the Pirates of the Caribbean had established a second Republic in the Bahamas on the island of Nassau with Calico Captain Jack and Blackbeard the pirate and others and since privateers as well as pirates were first of all scavengers and recyclers so to speak and headed for Florida to get as much as the sunken treasure in the shallow Waters that they could after the Spanish begin their Salvage operation and conflicts that followed over the treasure hordes and in the meanwhile the powers that be kept fighting one another and people change sides as pirate ships boarded ships of another Nation that some were commissioned as privateers for instance by the English and like Sir Francis Drake was and who became known as the Pirates of the Caribbean as long as with huguenots from the island of Tortuga and even a crusader from the from the Middle East of which moved to the island of Malta in the Mediterranean by the Muslims that drove them out of the near East and what is now Israel after the Crusaders set up Their Kingdoms there and were eventually driven out and the holy order of hospitality of which came to be known as the Knights of Malta who then having no resources on this barren set of islands were forced to become Crusader Pirates and took Muslim ships as they transversed from one end of the Mediterranean to the other as the island of Malta was smack dab in the middle of the Mediterranean seafaring ways and that's another Untold and unfinished story that I'm working on and in the meanwhile the meanest of all pirates in the Caribbean was a French pirate whose name alludes me and for the most part the Pirates of the Caribbean were Mercenaries at war with shipping from opposite Nations that they were commissioned to take and see his cargo and other privateers or Pirates were totally independent and did what's called roving and of course free booting and looting whatever ship that came across their path for being stateless and escape to indentured Maritime slaves for instance to the British admiralty and of course escape the black slaves and these independent nations floating at sea served no one except their own survival instincts and of course the British government after making peace with Spain and the Pirates and privateers of the English had no trade and no support system like the Dutch did who retrained their privateers and Pirates to be fishermen and but the English Pirates had no where to go except to go freelance and freebooting like Blackbeard the pirate for instance and Captain Jack Calico who took the king's pardon on the island of Nassau for all Pirates who would lay down their pirate ways and Captain Jack Calico went back to piracy along with his cross-dressing first mate name Bonnie and another cross-dressing female pirate of which is another story and he ended up being hung for piracy and put in a cage for the birds to pick his bones at the entrance of the largest city in the Caribbean of which was taken over by Rogue Pirates and was sunken to the ocean after a massive tidal wave and tsunami as a judgment of God no doubt for the Pirates who went too far in their free booting life and more to say on the subject. If you like my rap and my flying by the seat of my pants book then you can send the tip and help support or help me correct and edit the chapters for General reading consumers by downloading the cash app and my code name is after my first dog Cajidog$ or PayPal peterromanowsky@gmail.com 

Forty Years on a Hook wit the Pirates of San Francisco Bay / Chapter Eight the Philosophy of so called Piracy ....rough draft and unedited and a work on progress...40 years on a hook with the Pirates of San Francisco Bay by Chaplin Peter Christian Romanowsky rough draft and working progress and unedited as you go along you will see along an epic book being written in real time chapter by chapter. In the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island of which is reputed to be inspired by Angel Island of which I am also not far anchored from on San Francisco Bay as I speak dictate this novel in real time where the first European to Anchor off of what we now know in the Sausalito it was Sir Francis Drake before he was knighted for circling the world and is reputed to a very tons of looted silver from the Spanish here in Marin County California 38th parallel where he landed and I can't recall where I read this information you may have been from Drake's chaplain who wrote a book also about the voyage around the Earth and apparently they had a disagreement at one point and his chaplain ended up in the brig while circling the earth. New paragraph This is the last account of the last surviving free booters privateers looters and Hooters salvagers and recyclers mercenaries and Pirates Rebels against landlords and paying rent and the last free ride on Earth on the water where no one contain the water except Jesus who walked on the water and all those that live and work at sea have Jesus as their lord Savior and Captain and not Neptune. To be continued if you like the rap send a tip to cash app my code name Ccajidog$ or PayPal peteromanowsky@gmail.com and thank you and God bless you and this is a mythological voyage!

Saturday, March 2, 2024

chapter 7/ 40 years on a hook and living in Waterworld on San Francisco Bay and the last free ride

Chapter  7 years living on a hook in Waterworld on San Francisco Bay the last free ride. Here I was stuck in El Paso Texas far from my boats one on San Francisco Bay and one in Monterey Bay anchored out or more and I'm out of gas and I'm giving my Nomad trailer to a missionary whose wife had left him long before me on the mission field and gave him the keys to my car too nice used car went all the way to El Paso from Marin County and stopped only at the Grand Canyon and stuff like that. So how was I to get back to to take care of my boots? The missionary told me to cross the border and catch the Mexican bus to Tijuana and so my friend and I got on a Mexican bus that skirted the Border and the missionary said nobody will bother us for not having a Visa cuz we're inside of a borderline area. Of course they police officer Mexican check this out of what you never happens on buses in America for illegals and that's another subject. He let us go and we made a brief stop with the Mexicans and some dirt floor far away incredibly poor rest stop of just dirt and food and a woman was sitting next to me on the bus really cute young Mexican women and she was rubbing my ankle and being so naive and being a minister since I was a teen I didn't know what that meant and so I rub it started rubbing her ankle back with my shoe and that was the end of that and I'm sure she was attracted to me a gringo obviously from America and my traveling companion with the remains of a bullet still in his head from a shooting long ago and I came to the border of Tijuana looking like a Humphrey Bogart in a raincoat and crumpled hat I had and my traveling companion was Native American and looked just like a Mexican and had no idea on him and so of course I had ID on me and they were asking for my friends ID and I just told her look man this guy is an American citizen and he heard my voice and the sound of it and we both passed through the border to San Diego and then had no money had no food and so we sat on a bench in San Diego just waiting and figuring we're going to have to be here all night before I could call my mother in in the desert in Southern California to send me some bus money so we could get there and recuperate and but we had to spend the night homeless in San Diego and this is 1984 and eventually sat on was well at and we begin to notice homeless people everywhere and all night and one of them came to me and said are you hungry would you like a hamburger and I said sure and he opened a bag and gave me some burgers and said that he got him out of the McDonald's dumpster and I didn't care where he got him I was hungry and it was the first time in my life that I ever ate out of a dumpster and by now I'm some 36 years old. My friend wandered off and found some bushes to fall asleep in for he's used to sleeping on the ground but I've never slept on the ground from the day I ran away from home in 1967 to come back to Marin County my first love and only one night that I ever slept on the ground homeless unless I was camping. The most heart-wrenching time and period was when I tried to call my mother-in-law for some sympathy support and comfort in this sudden divorce that came upon me just a few days earlier and instead of her picking up the phone some young sounding man picked up the phone with a slightly gay accent and said that she was not available or that she was not at home and that he was her companion roommate or a masseuse or something like that I can't quite remember and said so coldly that he was where he was at in my late mother-in-law's mansion and I was where I basically belong homeless on a bench or wherever I was and so embellishing and so all alone hard to describe the devastating effects of a divorce with children in the middle of your life of which is supposed to be your Prime and to have to start all over again from the very bottom when you're 36 years old and not a teenager at 18 anymore. To be continued next chapter tending my boats and if you would like to support this Book Project then please do and I could use at least a tip still living on my boat on San Francisco Bay and on fixed income and feeding the anchor out Mariners and Waterfront people of Sausalito out of pocket for the main course and without boasting and I'm just saying that Anchorage do not live by bread alone donated by soup kitchens and but by meat and chicken and steak when available and pork steaks and Coca-Cola for everyone and with a shot of vodka if they got the shakes or just needed one and every penny we'll go to buying food every Sunday afternoon in Dunphy Park Sausalito California and can donate or send a tip to cash app and the code is c a j i d o g$ or PayPal peteromanowsky@gmail.com or the new Covenant Evangelistic Association p.o.box1591 Sausalito CA 94966 and God bless for I have made of nothing except love and have all that I need except a companion.