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In September, as Donald Trump toured New Bern, North Carolina, a neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Florence, the president became distracted by a shiny object: a lovely yacht, washed up in a backyard. “Is this your boat?” Trump asked a resident, according to the Washington Post. “Or did it become your boat?… At least you got a nice boat out of the deal!” [links]
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O’Brien, who’s worked as a piano technician for Phish, Daniel Lanois and Jazzfest, was unamused by Trump’s comments. “It’s exactly what I expected from him,” he says. “he thinks that he’s funny, but he’s not funny. He laughs at people’s expense and it’s typical of him to say something that would get a reaction from his little clan, but at the same time, it’s insulting and completely inappropriate to someone else; for instance, me and my boat. That was completely inappropriate for him to react that way. The president of the United States didn’t have the heart to consider the fact that this was someone’s home.”
So whose boat is that boat? As it turns out, it belongs to one Johnny O’Brien, who named it Zeus — and until Florence, called it home. O’Brien, a sailboat captain and Steinway concert piano technician, learned of his boat’s fate the day after Florence, when a friend sent him a news photo. “I was destroyed, basically,” says O’Brien, who’s now staying with friends. “That’s a very beautiful boat that I spent nine months and 3,000 to 4,000 hours restoring. It’s an extraordinarily beautiful boat now and it’s well-equipped to handle large groups when they’re chartering with me.” The boat is also key to O’Brien’s livelihood; each year, he sails it to the Bahamas, where he charters it out to Boy Scouts and others, offering sailing lessons and pleasure cruises.
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"What's your end game, anyway?" the therapist wanted to know. "If not prison or retirement, then how do you want all this to end for you? When will you ever be able to say, mission accomplished?" Gibbs had no answer; he simply responded that he owed too much to his team to depart. Harmon, though, has sung a different tune.
Like most of the NCIS crew, Mark Harmon's Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a quirky dude. He lives by a set of self-made rules, which includes nuggets like "Don't ever accept an apology from someone that just sucker-punched you" and "Never go anywhere without a knife." He likes to hold impromptu meetings in the elevator. He resents modern electronics, sleeps on his couch instead of in his master bedroom, and builds boats in his spare time.
For his part, Gibbs seems to like keeping everyone in the dark. When one character asked Gibbs how he gets the boats outside, Gibbs quipped, "Break the bottle," referencing the similar (but easily-solved) mystery about how model ships get in bottles. Another time, Gibbs referenced knocking out a wall and building a ramp, but the logistics of removing an underground wall remain unexplained. Occasionally, Gibbs answers questions about his boats with his signature steely stare. Intimidating? Yes. Informative? Not so much. here
Officially, the Kelly was a Glen-L Amigo, a 22-foot sailboat that Glen-L describes as "a heavy boat capable of serious long-distance offshore and coastal cruising." [links]
Later, Gibbs began working on a Glen-L Barrelback, which isn't a sailboat but a wooden motorboat. In the 2014 NCIS episode "Honor Thy Father," it's revealed that Gibbs and his father made a small Barrelback named Chickadee when Gibbs was still a child. After Gibbs' dad passed away, the NCIS investigator secured plans for a similar boat and quickly got to work, continuing Gibbs' tradition of using his boats to honor members of his family.
Over NCIS' lengthy run,Gibbs has built at least five boats that we know of. According to NCIS, Gibbs made three vessels before the show began, worked on another from seasons one through six, and has worked on at least one more since. In many ways, Gibbs' boats are like extra members of the NCIS cast. No, they don't help Gibbs and the rest of NCIS' star-studded cast solve mysteries, but it wouldn't be NCIS without them.
Doug Jackson, the boulder of the boat, documented his project on YouTube for the past 10 years. Since then, he’s gained nearly 200,000 subscribers to his channel with more than 800 videos.
TULSA, Okla. — “The Boat the Internet Built,” that’s what everyone is calling the 74-foot boat that entered the Tulsa Port of Catoosa Thursday morning.
The boat was built by a Tulsa man in his backyard over the past ten years. The big boat, named the “SV Seeker” has an even bigger following on social media. here
The boat is fully complete but not put together just yet. Jackson and a team of volunteers will spend the next month putting it together. Jackson said the SV Seeker will give free rides to students, researchers and scientists who are interested in exploring the oceans and waterways around the world. [links]