Spend enough time around the waterfronts of the world and you pick up some cool stuff. I'm lucky that I have the places to display all this stuff.
This old engine room telegraph was given to me by my brother-in-law Ron Simmons who saved it from the dump. The woman who gave it to him had a brother who saved a lot of this stuff from rotten row in the Alameda esturary.
When I met Sandy I was living on my boat the 40 foot Owens, the Mr. "B" in Napa. I had a large pickup truck with a full sized camper and one of the original cell phones. All I needed was a cute little gal to move in with me.