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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host, Doug Brunt. Today we're with David Coggins. He's been a writer for Esquire Magazine, Bloomberg, Condonass Traveler, and he's the author of four books. I love his writing style. It's like Hemingway, but with a sense of humor.

His latest book is called The Believer, A Year in the Fly Fishing Life. It tracks his adventures and reflections over the course of a whole year traveling to incredible places around the world

while he is fly fishing. I loved the book, and as one reviewer says, he catches more than fish. David, it's great to

have you here. Thanks for coming in. Thanks, Doug. Great to be here with you. And today we're drinking,

fittingly, some Pilar rum, which is an homage to Hemingway and his fishing boat, Pilar.

Sounds great. I'm very excited. I know not only is Cuba one of the stops on your fishing year, but you wrote a piece

for Esquire magazine about Pilar, the Headingway boat. Yes. I mean, it's amazing to be here

in Midtown with you because before Esquire was launched, and when I met you, I never knew we

would be talking so granularly about this,

but it's fantastic, that Arnold Gingrich, the original editor of Esquire, wanted Ernest Hemingway,

to write for the magazine. And he asked for a huge amount of money in this neighborhood. He was

paid that amount by Esquire. What year is this in the 30s? Exactly, 33. And then he went straight to a boat yard in a shipbuilding company in Brooklyn, if you can believe it, and bought the Pilar right then that was built in two weeks and taken down to Florida where he picked it up. So it's all coming together. I've only seen photos of the Pilar, which is this cool looking, so almost

like a boat you'd see around New England, like a working style boat, but you've actually

seen it in person. Yeah, it's in, at his house, or the farm, the Finca, which is just north of or

outside of Havana, and it's sitting under sort of sad at this point. It's 38 feet long. I was just looking

it up because I'd forgotten and was really designed to be fished in and that's what he did and he

could spend the night there but then there were supposedly he looked for German U-boats during

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