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This is actually the heartwarming true storyline of the improbable relationship between Motorboat, an old Hawaiian sage, and a boy looking for a father body.When ten-year-old Michael Baughman moves to Hawaii with his parents, he is troubled and lost. His daddy doesn't provide the instruction Baughman needs, and the young man doesn't know who to carefully turn to. When a larger-than-life Hawaiian beach young man named Boat needs Baughman under his wing, the young man finds a teacher and mentor. Motorboat is 285 pounds of sturdy muscle and mild spirituality. He introduces the young man to the means of Hawaiian mysticism, offering simple, serious intelligence that helps Baughman prosper in an normally lonely child years. Even after Baughman leaves the hawaiian islands seven years later, the improbable companionship endures for the rest of Boat's life, influencing and uplifting the author to this day.
Baughman's narrative begins with a distressed young man at a Pittsburgh Pirates game and ends more than six generations later, with himself as a content old man experiencing a wonder in Mexico. Which has a photographic memory space, Baughman recalls almost verbatim every significant talk he had with Boat. Motorboat spoke Hawaiian Pidgin English, and its unique lilt and rhythm grace this coming in contact with memoir. This is a testament to companionship and the revelations provoked by intelligence in surprising places.
