JEFFREY SHAPIRO

摘要

When I turned 13, my dad, Seymour, told me he had this big present for my bar mitzvah. He showed me this 38ft boat named Sero, which was the name of our shirt company, and then he said, "Let's take a walk." When I noticed this 17ft Chris Craft speedboat named Sero Too, I jumped up and down and gave him a big hug. He bought the 38ft for the family and the smaller one for me. Next he enrolled me in a power squadron course. My dad enjoyed drinking and he had one eye - he could not dock our family boat to save his life! When he came in to dock the first time, he must have bumped into three or four boats. After the third attempt, he said, "You can't do any worse than I did, see if you can do it." I was 13, had never docked a boat before, but the force was with me and I didn't hit anything. From that point on, I always ran the boat in tight situations.