Saturday, November 16, 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.
Chapter Nine/ Testimonial/ Arrival at Gates of of Hell at Gate Six Sausalito / by Peter Romsnowsky CEO/President of NCEA Inc
a buying a used Ford Sport Explorer with a 4-speed Overdrive and rack and pinion steering and that became my pet car or Auto and after a year doing anything I wanted todo and having the money to do it. For not having to pay rent mortgage is her taxes on property and my children's Mother, who is the treasurer of our nonprofit. Wrote me in, as CEO and president of the New Covenant Evangelistic Association Inc. For we were the last two board members, until we invited Doug storms to be Secretary and my children's Mother doubled as the Secretary, so Doug could be free to minister and the last I heard he was in Mexico and no doubt spreading the word and Back Again to my story and proverbly arriving at the Gates of Hell as called by yhe locals. The entrance to the Waterfront of Sausalito at gate 6, whete zombies freeloaders, Saints and Sinners and drug addicts and sex addicts and followers of the former Anglican priest Alan Watts. That claimed to have introduced Zen Buddhism to America of which in the Far East, nobody's ever heard of Zen Buddism!? Also I met Alan Watts grown up son and he was a very nice and polite waterfront denisen and was staying at the Zen Buddhist Center at Muir Beach and other places I'm sure like on the water and but I also met the former Roadie for the band The Pink Floyd and he was a fantastic person and perfect gentlemen and had a son named dancer and he was an anchor out off Sausalito on a houseboat on San Francisco Bay and he was the gnarliest looking pirate that I've ever seen on the waterfront pand with a Sweet Soul like gold and I met the man at Galilee Harbor those working on Michael Eiseisner's biographical book who was the CEO of Disneyland and the Hippie Summit happened and a ferry boat turned houseboat with Timothy Leary and other poets and free thinkers and anarchist and revolutionaries, before I had arrived and also the houseboats were the hiding place of the weather Underground and the ferry boat to Charles Van Damme was the number one hotspot for bands in Marin County and looking back it was the Fillmore Auditorium so to speak of Marin County, or the Avalon Ballroom and I was too young and dumb to know what was going on and I wasn't even old enough to buy cigarettes. But they always had a cigarette machine there back in the mid-60s and I used to sneak out of my house of my parents, who were sleeping. In Larkspur not far away and catch the bus at night with a friend and go to the Charles Van Damme and we serve alcohol even though only 17 and looked older and it was the Wild West back then with a two-story bar and dance floor and eventually Joe Tate and the home Rock Band called the red legs perform there later on in the 60s after it ceased being a nightclub and bar and dancehall and was revived again by the and it was all just one big free for all and Sausalito and a place for Anything Goes and dropping into this soup late in life at 36 after my unwanted divorce in 1984 I had to learn how to live all over again with nothing like I did when I first ran away from home in the year of the Summer of Love and return back to Marin County where I had lived for a few years prior to moving back to Los Angeles where I was raised with my parents and except for the fact that I had a couple of old and wooden sailboats and one was anchored off Monterey Harbor a 24 ft sailboat called Sarif of which I was sailing down the coast to deliver to my father is a gift in Ventura County of which was the destination of the boat and but the drivetrain stripped out and I had to get a new drive chain for the Lister diesel and while at home in San Sumo and getting ready for the next leg of my voyage my divorce went down unexpectedly and here I was in Sausalito with my 29 and a half foot boat, old and wooden sailboat that never stopped leaking from Below and I had bought it at kermits yard Harbor in San Rafael on the canal, buy a boat salesman and of course I got totally ripped off as usual when a newcomer who wants to be a sailor go shopping for a boat and is a sucker. Pausing to ruminate, it's 449 in the morning June 29th 2023, I've been living on the water in my boat since November 1984 and except for three years in a place called Galilee Harbor in Sausalito, the entire time I've been anchored off Sausalito on San Francisco Bay and I as I have aforementioned I became a full-time resident at this time and prior I had a 30 ft marine plywood sailboat a year or so earlier and spent half my day on the boat and half my day in my home with my wife and children, until I was sideswiped by it unexpected divorce and of whom I do not blame my spouse for as I have mentioned before, I married into a wealthy and Powerful family in Marin County the wealthiest and most powerful County in California and ultimately I was rejected by my in-laws of whom my father-in-law never really accepted me and went along with the marriage and it pleased my mother-in-law and he was interested in having grandchildren and that was about the size of it and after producing three grandchildren I was forced out of the family and could do nothing about it for he held the reins of power in this County and knew the judges that did my divorce and so like Moses I fled Into the Wilderness from the face of pharaoh and like David my wife Michelle was taken back by King Saul his father-in-law and being forced to live on my inadequately prepared boat or vessel and dropped into the midst of a hodgepodge of anchored boats and people of every sort and someone wanted by the law and are hiding and some are displaced persons who have lost their homes and family like I did through a divorce and others are addicted to alcohol and drugs and sex and false religions and philosophies and yet all of these train wreck of a community, like I myself have become a part of and are considered floating Jetsam on the bay and treated with no respect and belittled and slandered and vilified as to currently being accused of contributing to global warning, by our anchors dragging and circles like crop circles and yet the Eel Grass Grows prolifically and we are blamed for destroying the eelgrass on this part of San Francisco Bay and in reality it is so thick now because of all the nitrates in the Bay from the Mansions of millionaires that surround us and fertilizers running off after the winter storms and the Eel Grass is growing out of control in the Summers and then dies off in the winter and this is where the battle lines are drawn now, Plus are floating homes and boats have been declared Marine debris and so-called Harbor Masters and administrators black sharks prowl the water and looking for blood in the water so that they can devour people's homes and boats without do compensation and relocation on land of which they wish us to move into or into marinas that don't want us and that are outrageously expensive and so we sit like ducks in a pond and the hunters have their shotgun, too her verbally blow us out of the water and just like the spotted owl was used to destroy the lumber industry in what's now called The Emerald Triangle of where most of the high-grade marijuana is grown in America. Because the loggers were put out of work and their children became marijuana farmers and that's what they expect us to become and for there is no dry land for us to come to onshore in Marin County, a millionaires playground and the hedonistic capital of California and search for the movie called the serial about Marin County infamous hedonism and high rate of divorce. I am currently learning and relearning on how to be led by the Holy Spirit and not to be anxious about anything and to let the Holy Spirit do the talking and inspiration through me imperfections and all for We Are collaborators and the Holy Spirit is not dictating anything to me and but inspiring me and bringing pertinent things to my memory and I am learning this while writing my autobiography and memoise. Not to be anxious about what to write down or what to say for it shall be given to me in that hour, so to speak as Jesus taught when going to court for his sake and persecution by the accuser of the bread and the devil. Not to premeditate what to say or to be anxious about what to say and have a clearly defined thought process prior to a court appearance as in my case a number since my divorce on the quality of life issues of which I began to suffer all of the sufferings of the homeless and the anchor outs and being arrested along with them for simple things like being charged with drunk in public of which is a common charge when the police want to harass her hassle people at the city councils bequest of Sausalito for instance to get rid of all the poor people and the Riff raft and the homeless and the police say you have to go home and drink and how can you say that to a homeless person who lives in her shoes and needs a little alcohol to help forget their poverty as the last chapter of the Book of Proverbs prescribes and it prescribes judges not to condemn those for drinking in public or even being drunk in public and not to criminalize them and to say as I say and interpret the meaning of that proverb telling the judges to judge righteous judgment and for not to give people criminal records to make it harder for them to get a job and by the grace of God I have never been convicted of being drunk in public and even though I have been accused and arrested for it after my divorce a number of times and in fact I hold the record for being body bagged and shamed hand and foot, and being charged with drunk in public and resisting arrest when all I did was lay down in a non-violent protest position and I was chained hand and foot and carried away and by the grace of God in court God gave me the wisdom to have a jury trial and representing myself as an attorney in Pro per, wowing the courts and the jury to the point where the judge told me after two of the jurors bailed out after I gave my opening statement and one said that he knew me and couldn't be an impartial judge and another said she witnessed the quote police brutality that was inflicted on me at my arrest for non-violently protesting and just laying down and saying Carry Me Away and so there was not enough jurors left to have a trial and the nervous and squeamish and paranoid judge who had who had been pulled out of retirement. Specifically to handle my case because she couldn't be recalled and I was part of a recall movement of judges and a district attorney and I signed the initial papers to recall the district attorney and then I got a call from Lynette Rose to founder of the first medical marijuana Club in the USA and said that she had a beef with the district attorney also and wanted to join us in recalling her and she put up the money and the signatures to put the district attorney on the recall about it and then we ran a friend of mine name Carol Marduez, who is being persecuted for trying to rescue her daughter from an abusive father who was a cocaine addict and dealer and even burned her daughter with cigarettes and the district attorney decided to make an example out of her when she got a court order from Judge Duffy and went with the police to her daughter's school to get custody of her daughter and then the district attorney accused her of making false statements to get the legal Authority and decided to make an example out of her for political reasons for I had encouraged her to run for Novato school board and I was her campaign manager and the district attorney thought that she could gain popularity in votes by going after my close and Christian and godly mother and friend and it all backfired and then we ran my friends brother who is an attorney against the district attorney and of course she out spent our candidate and got reelected and but it broke her health and she could never run again for I had heard that she was having trouble with some sort of blindness and she was being groomed to be no doubt the next congresswoman are senator and being from the richest and most influential and Democrat stronghold in California which is Marin County she would have been a shoe in and because of her eyesight trouble and for as you know Justice should be blind, she never ran for reelection and nobody has ever heard of her since for touching God's child who was trying to protect her child from a Godless man and she will ever go down in history as Carol martus and wrote a book about her experience also after being jailed and imprisoned we're trying to legally rescue her daughter and after being sent to the Mexican border to a woman's prison where none of us can reach her and she endured all this horror and she was a Godly woman singing in a choir at the San Rafael Southern Baptist Church for instance and outlasted her critics and opponents and eventually her daughter when she turned 18 came back to her mother and there was a happy ending for Carol and an unhappy ending to a district attorney who dared touch one of God's anointed and I'm saying all this to say that in court I do my homework before going to court and I've had two jury trials that I have picked myself out of 50 candidates one was over an eviction From Galilee Harbor of which was a false and libelous harbor that lied to everybody about being a Marine Service Harbor to get their permits and just recently even pulled out the dingy doc so the anchorouts couldn't tie up there and it was originally supposed to be a refuge for the anchor outs of Sausalito and a double whammy for Mr Goldbar of the San Francisco Bay and conservation development the organization that gave the permit for the harbor to be a Marine Service Harbor also voted to take out the dingy dock and the harbor was supposed to be a refuge for the anchor outs and we have them by the proverbial Eel Grass that they are trying to use to exterminate a way of life on San Francisco Bay and they are all headed for trouble with the Lord to be continued.. if you would like to send a contribution please do to the New Covenant Evangelistic Association PO box 2404 San Anselmo California 949-79 if one would like to help me feed the multitudes in the park Sausalito, for most of the food comes put of pocket and if your broke, come anyway to Dunphy Park Sausalito at the Gazebo, from noon to evening and get saturated in gospel and inspirational music, for and fellowsip and the word of God...at our weekly barbecue and picnic...Hallelujah had a miracle in Dunphy Park Sausalito last Sunday July 2nd for church and hot food barbecue and Pantry in the park all afternoon long and during the day I met a man that was a schoolmate of My Strange son of whom I've only had lunch with the ones and almost 39 years and he didn't even stay for dessert and has not visited me with my newest grandchild for some time now of whom I've never seen and is still bitter over the divorce for my in-laws head brainwashed my children with their millions of dollars and put all three of my children through universities and paid for their tuitions and made me look like a nothing more than a demented Jesus Freak for loving the Lord my God with all my heart mind and soul and of course my neighbor as myself of which are the two great Commandments that Jesus preached and who said all the other Commandments are hinged on these two great Commandments of which are not written among the 10 Commandments in stone and but can only be written on one's heart by the new birth of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ Our Lord to the father and this former High School classmate of my sons said he's going to contact my son and shame him into coming and visiting me and bringing my two grandchildren of which he has never done and I've only seen him a few times since the year of the Big Brother 1984 and I have so needed to go between my son and me and nobody has been able to bridge that Gap and I don't even have his phone number or email otherwise I would try to call and email him and I have to go through my children's Mother and she can't apparently bridge the gap either and neither my eldest daughter and my youngest daughter I've been a strange from also from decades and she is a famous aerialist it was first job was at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas after graduating from Leola Marymount University in Southern California and went on to work with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes as a contracted aerialist and was in a Super Bowl Chevy commercial with the cast of Glee, doing her aerialist act and was on Good Morning America being interviewed after falling during a performance in Hollywood and breaking bones without a safety net and of course the bitterness of divorce and the brainwashing by my multimillionaire in laws and my powerful political figure, my late father-in-law who has had appointments by the former Governor Brown of California and the former Governor Reagan of California and has had Eisenhower and patton at his Captain's Table in the Mediterranean during World War II, as a Merchant Marine captain during the war and also was the chairman of the board at the Vallejo state Maritime Academy in California and was appointed by the two governors to the State Harbors and Navigation Commission of California.
Captain Log July 6th the second day an aging Harbor Seal has moved next door, to my floating home on San Francisco Bay and I was recently wondering where the harbor seals go to die for of all the harbor seals that I've seen in the bay up to around 40 at a time. Sunbathing near the shore of Sausalito on Richards and Bay and here is a seal that has taken up residency for the past two days in my skiff and a very rare event in the few decades that I have been anchored on the bay and I was visited by a white whale on another occasion and that's another story and it wasn't an albino and maybe this agency is looking for a peaceful place to expire?! On the 4th of July I met the man again who has been writing a book about the anchor outs of Sausalito for the past 8 years and is on the final Chapter and he said the book will be out this time next year to be published by Collins and Harper publishing of New York and where he's from and has been commuting back and forth over the past eight years working on this apparently monumental book about the Anchorage and Waterfront people of Sausalito and he told me a story about Richard Dreamweaver and a seal that he friended and fed regularly and I wonder if this is the same seal. For it has no fear of me and usually seals dive back under the water when humans get close to them or they just follow us out in our skiffs in the middle of the night like guardian angels and Richard last I heard is staying with his brother in San Francisco and so if it is his pet seal.Then it's found a new home in my skiff the last couple of days and looking forward to seeing this aging and beautiful and gentle harbor seal for a long time.. to be continued
Captain's Log vessel Melinda anchored on San Francisco Bay poetic story poem of my encounter with Oscar Goodwin mayor of Las Vegas and Mafia attorney by Peter Romanowsky
My poetic encounter with Oscar Goodman the alleged lawyer for the mafia and mayor of Las Vegas and he was standing in line with a 13-year-old looking grandson and he was staring at me like he was a cop or something on agent and as he was standing in line to get on the Golden Gate Ferry from Sausalito to San Francisco and I asked his son or grandson, why he has such a hard look and the kid told me that he was the mayor of Las Vegas and I broke out in the spontaneous auditory Chuckles and opportunity to exasperate myself by saying ladies and gentlemen here is the mayor of Las Vegas or something like that if I recall and I might not have been that rude or crude and I went on to say that his answer to the homeless problem was too round them up and put him in the abandoned military bases which some have thought of as potential concentration camps as if homeless camps weren't enough. So I roasted Oscar Goodman, in good humor and repeated something that allegedly he had said that the answer to the graffiti problem is to cut the middle finger off the graffiti artists or vandals however you look at them and I assume that he never said that today and yet I am not ruling that out either and just when it looked like I wasn't getting a laugh out of Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman a flight crew from a major airline showed up and saw me entertaining and they all wave to me the captain and the co-pilot the airline stewardesses and when Oscar saw that oh man he broke out in the great big smile after my jokes when he saw I had friends like that who have seen my act before and enjoyed it and when Oscar saw my fans and my dogs of course the proverbial star of the show, all went well and everybody was happy and nobody had egg on their face unless the rumors are print was true and everything I say is my own opinion and testimonial of my encounter with Oscar Goodman mafia boss of a Las Vegas and mayor also!
40 years on a hook on boats on San Francisco Bay and unedited work in progress by Peter Romanowsky of Sausalito
Speaking in a somewhat poetic way as life is the greatest poem in the Bible is the greatest book of poems and as I sit waiting for an anchor out shipmate Steve to come by and take me to shore to do my necessary shopping as I only come to shore lately twice a week anchored off Sausalito on San Francisco Bay end of the best of my knowledge has spent more time on a hook than anybody on the bay except for the possibility of Greg Baker of Sausalito over which is an honorable person and yes he works for the both sides and he is a mediator and someone that can work with the both sides and has rescued me more than once and I have a debt of gratitude to him and in the meanwhile I just drug anchor some hundreds of yards and I'm currently in a position in the midst of all my fellow Anchorage and feel closer to home with them now for I was more isolated where I was anchored and now I'm able to have more interaction with my fellow boat refugees Anchorage Mariners privateers and benign Pirates as well as Fisherman's salvagers Mariners and again I believe that the movie Waterworld was inspired by the dry docks of Sausalito of which the atol in the movie reminds me of and there was a Hollywood script writer a ghost writer and a well-known writer who was on a monstrous catamaran that had blown into the dry dogs and he moved on to it with his typewriter and laptop and started writing and before long the movie Water World came out now isn't that a coincidence and he also was a tutor to the Kennedys and so there is a lot of history here on the waterfront of Sausalito and I am the contemplating writing a book starting from my life and San Fernando Valley and Encino California in West Valley Los Angeles and escaping so to speak back to Marin County and Sausalito of whom I fell in love with at first sight and was originally a artist colony and now has become so gentrified it is difficult to distinguish Sausalito as an artist colony and presently we are under duress from the bay conservation development Commission and the Richardson Bay Regency agency and the city council of Sausalito which are all against the waterfront and Mariner Way of Life and have passed regulations and in effect laws without legislation an unconstitutional and against a Bill of Rights of seizing people's property within 10 days after a flimsy note being and a 72 hour rule made by a non-representative community Army committees that have no legislative powers and this is a matter for the state legislator and not for local cronies to pass regulations and Taxation Without regulations and hiring a privateer and pirate Harvard administrator and his goonie who already has assaulted the president of the Marin County homeless Union and trying to defend people's floating homes that have historically been on Richardson Bay and part of the greater San Francisco Bay for Millennia going back to the local first American natives called the water of people and known as the miwoks the miwoks and who have lived on the waters here and it is commonly believed that they call this rainbow Bay and this is the first place that Sir Francis Drake anchored after discovering the entries to the Golden Gate Bridge according to the local first Americans whose descendants wrote a book called Drake at olimpie and you can hopefully find a copy of the book describing Drake's first encounter with the first Americans here in Marin County and they loved adored him and reverenced him for he was kind to the local inhabitants and repaired his ship here in Novato California near a place called birkenshire in Novato California where the the shore of the bay used to be much bigger and now is a good distance from the place where Drake apparently built the first English fort or fortification or wall in North America by Drake and his crew and more to say later and God bless you for reading in Jesus name . 
Jerusalm Betlehelm Missionary Journal by Peter Romanowsky an unedited voice text
Sadat speaking and how the look of admiration on his face that his President not only brokered a peace with Egypt Israel and but I was the living proof sitting next to him that his president was doing God's will and here I was a testimony of one of the earliest people to go backpacking into Egypt after the peace agreement with Israel and of where as it was very risky to be traveling in Egypt if you are an American especially during the time of hostilities between Egypt in Israel. A complete chapter or book will be written about my experience in Egypt for that would take a long time to share and will be shared later on in this book or a manuscript or memoirs or short stories my last Testaments or Will. So going back to my experience with the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews. I was standing one night near the only Christian bookstore in West Jerusalem, with the number of young Hassidic Jewish youth somewhat mocking I front of the bookstore and one of them said to me watch out turn around and I did and I saw the most Orthodox or ultra-orthodox looking Jew, that I had ever met with his great big beard and the full outfit from the Polish Mediaeval ghettos garb. I was surprised and somewhat shocked to turn around and see the symbol Ultra orthodox Rabbi looking Jew and my first thought was that I was going to be in trouble or have a conflict with this Rabbi looking gentleman. To my surprise he spoke in perfect English with a British accent and said that he was a fighter pilot in England during the war with Germany and was a very polite gentlemen and nothing like the Fearsome reputation that the ultra-orthodox Jews have of isolation and confrontation. The bottom line is that most everybody steers clear of the ultra-orthodox and don't take their pictures four they are in a world of their own and I respect them for that just like the Amish and Mennonites in Europe and America in their old world lifestyle and dress. This Rabbi looking gentleman did I met change my view of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jew. For he was kind gentle intelligent and not fanatical even though I was standing in front of a Christian bookstore that eventually was set on fire by Yeshiva students from New York. Another time an ultra-orthodox walks by a Christian bookstore at King David Street where I was standing in a friend of Canada when I told him Jesus load them he spit on the ground and we'll leave it at that. Eventually Arnold Butler the missionary who would walk around with a great big plastic shopping bag full of Messianic Christian literature and who would stuff mailboxes in apartment complexes for instance and had his wife and children with him in Israel was arrested for passing out literature at Israel's Most Holy spot the Western Wall which used to be called The Wailing Wall until the 67 War, when they took the old city from Jordan and the Temple Mount. He was taken to the same jail that terrorists were taken to and he wouldn't stop witnessing for the Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah and was denied a Bible and an Ambassador for England insisted that he be given a Bible or at least the New Testament and while there he met the lone surviving Japanese terrorist that arrived in Tel Aviv on a jet from Athens with his accomplishments and shut up the Tel Aviv Airport and set off a bomb and I could see the damage from the terrorist attack of which happened shortly before I arrived in Tel Aviv on one of my first Journeys there. The man graciously accepted a new testament I'm Arnold Butler and a Christian Japanese pilgrim that stayed in the same pilgrims hostel at Christ Church King David Street in The Old City I was so shocked and embarrassed of what his fellow countrymen did and miraculously the same man I met and who grieved so over what happened, became the translator for the terrorist to the Israeli government and one never knows why or when God has somebody in place to do an unexpected work helping change the course of history unbeknowingly and as the scriptures say written by the Apostle Paul that one should be instant in season and out of season. But God sometimes moves us around like chess pieces on the board and not knowing God's plan but he knows all things and puts all things together and in place, without interfering with the moral will of man. Eventually missionary Arnold Butler was deported and on another occasion when it is real I found him again and somehow he had snuck his way back into Israel and had his family in an apartment in near Bethlehem if I recall and how he got back into Israel after being deported is a mystery to me and I presume that he came in through Jordan or maybe even Lebanon and he was still doing his missionary work stuffing apartment house mailboxes what is Messianic Christian literature in West Jerusalem. Another strange and fascinating story from one of my times I was in the Jerusalem was that on the Mount of Olives a group of Jewish believers and a man named Steve Zapperstien of whoe's name I remember the best for his smile and love and devotion, in getting the word out about Jesus in the Western part of Jerusalem doing street ministry and evangelism and whole visiting the commune on the Mount of Olives in thier rented facility, I shared with them that I was a Pastor from California and was here to do the same work,the leader of the commune was a very intense an commited leader and grabbed me by the shoulders and moved me aside in an hallway distrespecyfully, because I didn't move fast enough put of his way and a few years later I found him working for our Church Fellowsip organist and co-owner of the Black Market import store the largest in Marin County, named Frank Worthen and he was shocked and speechless when we met again on the other side of the World and he was working for a Church member of ours and the lesson learned that if one disrespects someone on the other side of the World, that there is no escape from our consequences, be I ever so small without the wheels of justice turning and facing our smallest acts, without grievances or repentances it was so humiliating or humbling experience for my brother in Christ. For it's not a small world like I used to say, but we have a big God who watches over us and our every move. An experience I had with the Muslim Arab Palestinians of Interest was when I went to the Dome of the Rock the third most holy place for Islam on top of the Temple Mount area the first and most holy place for the Jewish faith. I went up to the entrance of the Dome of the Rock to go in when it was open to the non-muslim public back in the 70s, and they looked in my backpack the Palestinian police who guard the Temple mount. We're called and detain me in a substation that they had on the Temple mount of which religiously and technically is controlled by Jordan, spiritually speaking and religiously officially. After the door man at the Dome of the Rock, found a plastic bottle that had laundry detergent in it and a rag to keep it from falling out because I lost the lid and the doorkeeper of the mosque I thought that it might be a bomb and I was taken away to the substation. The captain of the Guard so to speak looked at the bottle and smelled it after I told him it was only low laundry detergent then let me go and I went into the Dome of the Rock, I have even been inside of the Dome of the Rock in the cave of The hollowed-out Rock and I learned later, many years later that there is another cave or cavity under the initial one. It was quite an experience to walk around inside of the Dome of the Rock and to go inside of it into the hollow cave, where are young Muslim youth, explain things to me.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Chapter Nineteen Forty years on a Hook the Sail attempt up the coast from Montery too San Francisco Bay
After safely coming into Monterey Harbor California Visa via the Coast Guard and Rescue in the dark and couldn't find my way or enough wind to navigate and sail into the harbor entrance and anyways of which was hidden by the fog and so I was bobbing, out there in the pitch dark and with no wind and a fog Bank coming in and a fishing boat calling the Coast Guard and a plane was sent out to search also and finally towed outside of Monterey Harbor and tied to the Mooring out there if I recall or just dropped anchor and set by coast guard and was ordered to stay with the boat and I'll leave the boat until they come back the next day and when the Coast Guard did return it was led by an angry Coast Guard officer who demanded to see our flares and registration and myself and my first mate for lunch towards the Coast Guard officer who put his hand on his pistol and put his hand out and said stand back and wrote us a ticket for having no flares of which we had to shoot off to get rescued and that's how such a ridiculous thing can happen in life. New paragraph two of my friends from San Francisco Bay in Sausalito came back with me to Monterey to help me Sail my 24-foot heavy wood sailboat without a motor northward against the wind and current and one was an experienced sailor who was born on a trimaran and the other was totally green and new to sailing offshore like me for instance but I spend a year of sailing from Sausalito and skirting the Golden Gate Bridge on the inside of the Bay and down the coast of San Francisco to Aquatic Park and Fisherman's Wharf area and back to Sausalito and more time practicing sailing up and down the channel of Sausalito on San Francisco Bay and I don't remember how much sailing time that I had total but it was a few years. At first I was thinking and praying about getting a tow up by a commercial fishing boat to Sausalito and San Francisco Bay and after going to a local high-end restaurant to celebrate our cruise to San Francisco Bay, we launched the next day or so and towing our old wooden dinghy and no life raft or any proper equipment for navigation and safety and Sailing by the seat of our pants like the minimalists we were and at first all is well and the weather was good and it was sunny and tacking up the coast we sailed and eventually a thermal Gail begin to build and started to pushing us back in the waves got up to about 16 ft which is two stories and I saw one breaking in a distance and my third mate was in shock and fear and went into the folks hole of the boat and covered himself with a blanket or sleeping bag and prayed that if God would get him out of this that he would serve him and when he came out of the boat cabin he eventually had the flare gun in his hand and wanted to fire it to get rescued before it got dark or before we were swamped or driven into offshore waves that were breaking far offshore and there were fire trucks in ambulances and police with their lights on onshore in the far distance and waves were breaking about a quarter mile offshore and we were heading right into the breakers and begin struggling to unfural the main sail and just in time we were able to avoid going into the breakers and started heading sewards again after we had turned back around to head back to Monterey Bay and the waves we're really big and our 24-ft boat was like a cork in between these two-story waves enrolled perfectly in between them and a larger boat would have had more difficulty when we were in trouble on the ocean and the sun went down, we were Sailing In The Dark with no navigation lights, back towards Monterey Bay, after only getting as far as Moss Landing before we had to turn back and we finally fired our flares after Dark and my first mate shown our Spotlight on the sale to light it up so that the Coast Guard could find us in the pitch dark and when the Coast Guard arrived in their 40-ft patrol boat it could barely straddle the up to 17 ft ways with a short valley between them and just big enough for our heavy little wooden sailboat and the bow of the Coast Guard boat would completely come out of the water like a submarine between the waves and this is how some ships are lost they break into when a wave Picks Them Up In The Middle and but Coast Guard boats are made to handle such stresses and they threw us a life jacket and missed and had to go back around and pick it up for their very expensive filled with all kinds of flares and tools and Light and after heroically recovering the life jacket in the dark finally we're able to get three of them to us to put on and tie our boat to their vessel and off they and at a high speed crashing through the waves as we were being told behind and my first week told me later that was the scariest part of the journey being towed by the Coast Guard for there are instances where a towed car accidentally sunk from being towed. Later the Coast Guard estimated the way to be as high as 17 ft and the Coast Guard officer said that they could see our sailboat by our bright spotlight being shown on the main sale in the dark and it was blowing and the ways were high and could easily hide a little sailboat between waves and but as a wave comes up then the boat could be fully seen again what it's sail lit up.o sail into the harbor entrance anyways of which was hidden by the fog and so I was bobbing, out there in the pitch dark. With no wind and a fog Bank coming in and a fishing boat calling the Coast Guard and a plane was sent out to search also and finally towed outside of Monterey Harbor and tied to the Mooring out there if I recall or just dropped anchor and set by coast guard and was ordered to stay with the boat and I'll leave the boat until they come back the next day and when the Coast Guard did return it was led by an angry Coast Guard officer who demanded to see our flares and registration and myself and my first mate for lunch towards the Coast Guard officer who put his hand on his pistol and put his hand out and said stand back and wrote us a ticket for having no flares of which we had to shoot off to get rescued and that's how such a ridiculous thing can happen in life. New paragraph two of my friends from San Francisco Bay in Sausalito came back with me to Monterey to help me Sail my 24-foot heavy wood sailboat without a motor northward against the wind and current and one was an experienced sailor who was born on a trimaran and the other was totally green and new to sailing offshore like me for instance but I spend a year of sailing from Sausalito and skirting the Golden Gate Bridge on the inside of the Bay and down the coast of San Francisco to Aquatic Park and Fisherman's Wharf area and back to Sausalito and more time practicing sailing up and down the channel of Sausalito on San Francisco Bay and I don't remember how much sailing time that I had total but it was a few years. At first I was thinking and praying about getting a tow up by a commercial fishing boat to Sausalito and San Francisco Bay and after going to a local high-end restaurant to celebrate our cruise to San Francisco Bay, we launched the next day or so and towing our old wooden dinghy and no life raft or any proper equipment for navigation and safety and Sailing by the seat of our pants like the minimalists we were and at first all is well and the weather was good and it was sunny and tacking up the coast we sailed and eventually a thermal Gail begin to build and started to pushing us back in the waves got up to about 16 ft which is two stories and I saw one breaking in a distance and my third mate was in shock and fear and went into the folks hole of the boat and covered himself with a blanket or sleeping bag and prayed that if God would get him out of this that he would serve him and when he came out of the boat cabin he eventually had the flare gun in his hand and wanted to fire it to get rescued before it got dark or before we were swamped or driven into offshore waves that were breaking far offshore and there were fire trucks in ambulances and police with their lights on onshore in the far distance and waves were breaking about a quarter mile offshore and we were heading right into the breakers and begin struggling to unfural the main sail and just in time we were able to avoid going into the breakers and started heading sewards again after we had turned back around to head back to Monterey Bay and the waves we're really big and our 24-ft boat was like a cork in between these two-story waves enrolled perfectly in between them and a larger boat would have had more difficulty when we were in trouble on the ocean and the sun went down, we were Sailing In The Dark with no navigation lights, back towards Monterey Bay, after only getting as far as Moss Landing before we had to turn back and we finally fired our flares after Dark and my first mate shown our Spotlight on the sale to light it up so that the Coast Guard could find us in the pitch dark and when the Coast Guard arrived in their 40-ft patrol boat it could barely straddle the up to 17 ft ways with a short valley between them and just big enough for our heavy little wooden sailboat and the bow of the Coast Guard boat would completely come out of the water like a submarine between the waves and this is how some ships are lost they break into when a wave Picks Them Up In The Middle and but Coast Guard boats are made to handle such stresses and they threw us a life jacket and missed and had to go back around and pick it up for their very expensive filled with all kinds of flares and tools and Light and after heroically recovering the life jacket in the dark finally we're able to get three of them to us to put on and tie our boat to their vessel and off they and at a high speed crashing through the waves as we were being told behind and my first week told me later that was the scariest part of the journey being towed by the Coast Guard for there are instances where a towed car accidentally sunk from being towed. Later the Coast Guard estimated the way to be as high as 17 ft and the Coast Guard officer said that they could see our sailboat by our bright spotlight being shown on the main sale in the dark and it was blowing and the ways were high and could easily hide a little sailboat between waves and but as a wave comes up then the boat could be fully seen again what it's sail lit up.
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