I was sitting there expecting to feel bullets come through me, just because it's, you know,

it's not the kind of thing you do is approach a boat and identify yourself. This is the Adventure Sports Podcast.

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Get out there and have some fun.

Thank you. TAC. Get out there and have some fun. We have a very special show for you today. Our guest is Terry Hauffler. Terry has led an adventure-filled life. He was

born in Peru to U.S. parents. He was raised in Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua before as a

teenager, they all moved to Australia. Terry came back to the U.S. when he was 18 years old.

Since then, Terry has worked for NASA, lived in the Colorado Rockies, and

Captain a Cellboat Charter Service on a 48-foot catch in the Virgin Islands. He now resides

on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where he continues his adventurous life with his wife, Judy.

Terry, welcome to the program. Thank you, Kurtz. Terry, take a few minutes to tell our listeners about yourself.

I've told them a little bit, but let's hear more about you and your connection to sailing.

Okay, Curtis.

The reason I want to talk to your audience today about sailing is it's such a lifelong kind of activity.

I started probably my senior year in college with a 12-foot

catamaran and then I bought a snark and eventually after I graduated with my first paycheck,

I went into debt and I got a 16-foot Hobie cat. Then after that, I had a 28-foot Erwin sloop, which I put a wind surfer on.

That was back in the days when the windsurfers had just come out, and they had teak booms and,

you know, a teak universal joint.

After that, a friend of mine and I bought an Alden Schooner. It was 55 years old, about 43 feet,

and got some good stories about that. But eventually, I got on Atkins Loop, Whaler Sailor

Sailboard, and at that point an opportunity came up to go sailing and get that catch the catch 48-foot

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