Slave:
Your Potter has quite a history!.
I may have missed part of your story. Was there more after, "The rest of"?
Harry
>Bob, Ted, Harry, thanks for your interest. WWP # 655 was purchased in
>Seattle in the mid 70's by Bud Gooding who was serving in the US Marines
>at the time. He brought the boat to Okinawa where he served and where he
>retired after marrying his Japanese bride. He is a great gentleman. I last
>saw him in late 1997 and could he tell some stories! He is one of those
>rare men who served in 3 wars -- WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Was a back seat
>gunner in a dive bomber over Rabaul years ago. He looked very
>distinguished wearing a formal black kimono at official functions, truly a
>man who has forgiven his adversaries. He sailed the WWP on Okinawa for
>many years until it was run onto a reef by a "friend." When I purchased it
>it looked like a terrarium sitting on the rusty remains of a trailer. I
>cleaned it out using bleach, rolled it over onto old tyres, ground off the
>skegs and reglassed and repainted the bottom. The outside of the hull had
>been repainted in an aircraft shop and boy is that paint still good! The
>rest of
>Slava Joukoff
>WWP 14 #655 "QT"
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