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One of my customers is a born and bread sailor.... a literal walking encapsulated version of steamboat Wille meets Jed Clampit. Well long story short he is apart of an elite group of only 30 guys in the state of Texas that can bring any foreign flagged cargo ship into US waters on our coast (like 50miles from the coast) and he's literally flown out to the vessel's to navigate them into the Port. Now keep in mind he's got a $15mil spread out near the Texas / Louisiana border(another country over there as he calls it) and the monstrosity of a house sits on 170acres. In talking with him I saw an Alpina B7 in the garage lined up.with his gator utv, diesel trucks, escalades and ..... chicken coup. I was in the TRX one of those days and asked him about it and he joked about how he spends his days navigating 1200ft long, 180ft tall, and 150ft wide vessel's 2 ft above the Port floors so the Alpina B7 fit perfectly as a "business meeting car". He then proceeded to tell me how he get plenty of looks when he steps out of his B7 wearing overalls(keep in mind he's like 400lbs) while going to meet at the governors office to either lobby for their percentage shares or to get their yearly certs signed by the Gov. This lead me to ask, percentage share? I would've never have guessed it, but those boys with that role are making nearly 2% the value of each vessel s cargo they bring into Port. My mind was blown especially after he told me just to get to where he's at after they go through the levels to even be considered for a 3yr apprenticeship, in the event they get the nod they still have a $500k plus buy into the "membership". See you got me on a tangent with your boat reference.... owning fast Mopars... I'm used to it lol. |
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