He's also one of my personal heroes...
But, you say, what does a book about repairing a VW have to do with boats?
Well, for me, it was my introduction to the fact that I could actually do things like troubleshoot and work on cars by breaking the job at hand into simple, easy to understand segments.
Something of a eureka moment as it happens...
All of a sudden I realized that not only could I rebuild my VW's motor on the side of the road when needful but by extending the basic premise I could do almost anything from rigging a mast to learning that guitar solo that had seemed unapproachable and make it my own.
"How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" is not just a book about fixing cars but a book of power.
Whenever I've hit the proverbial brick wall on boat building projects I always ask myself how John Muir would have approached the problem and it always seems to work.
Nuff said...
