Forrest is a Pirate too... I I I.... mean he knows how to drive a Sailboat: Excuse him:
I don't think he is really all that good at it... but he knows his limitations .. and if he goes past them well he is learning then.
He had a nice old boat once, well more then one, but one he used more then the others I suppose you could say...the one he went to Cuba in a couple of times before Bush signed the Executive Decree depriving him and others of their basic fundamental Constitutional rights to exercise freedom of movement..
He was not slacker though he covered his ass with a Humanitarian Aid License to enter Cuba of course with the U.S. Coast Guards Blessings... you know you inform them the approximate time you are going to penetrate the military defense zone and at what coordinates .. so they can meet you there and pilfer your boat and question you because you told them where and when you were going to be there.... giving away your position to the opposing forces in a loose sense of the word... pure genius for sure....I don't think Patton would be very proud of Byron maybe even giving him a slap in the face, giving away the very basic tactic of the element of surprise like that.. but in this case Byron was in Charge and thought No big deal.. the Coast Guard guys are o.k they are on our side. in Forrest's book.. they are always polite.. well to Byron anyway... of course he was not an asshole either towards them... most of them young bucks from Oklahoma...
Nothing quite like being 20 miles off of Cuba at 2 A.M. in the morning and seeing a flare go off a mile off on Starboard... and then hearing over the radio in broken Slavic... This is the Jaguar how do you copy.. zis is za zzzjaguar.........za zzzzzjaguar... shit... Byron no likey..... he turned off the running lights... and turned the engine up to full throttle making a bee line for the big steel buoy off of the entrance to the Marina Hemingway still 20 miles away ... looked to him like he was in the direct crossfire of some illegal activity by pure chance.. come dawn he and his crew of Son and Daughter in Law... slipped into the Marina for showers and chow... and of course the delivery of the humanitarian aid......... then off on the Bicycles.
On Vertical win........ Zee ZZajuar...........
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