1.What is your name?
Mike Agron

2.Where are you from?
Wooster Ohio

3.What is your occupation?
State Gardener

4.What did you do to deserve a place on this boat?
I was nice to Aaron and Brian. I married into family. I oiled a lot of interior cabin teak...

5.Have you ever been sailing before?
Aye Aye. Aye is an old English word that means yes. When I was 8th grade my dad taught me sailing on a 8' sabot pram(flat) bow of course cat rigged with a dagger board. He bought a 16' sailboat sloop day sailor. Midnight skulker built in Plano, Texas. The class of sailboat was Lone Star(16). One weekend sailed from Los Angeles' Marina del Rey(a very large small craft harbor just north of LAX, LA international airport) from Marina del Rey to (Santa) Catalina Island 26 miles from LA. I was aboard an Exxon super tanker off China Basin in San Francisco. The engine room was something like 5-11 stories high as in a 5-11 story building(it was in mid 1980's so I do not recall the exact # of stories high.

6.If Jesus won the boat and inherited the crew in a poker game, what changes do you think he would make?
Jesus would not play poker.
" " love you unconditionally.
" " discuss conversion.
" " say the boat is just fine the way it is. Jesus would say to you two indentured servants he would say: "...the truth will set you free..." That is part of some Bible verse.

7.What song do you think best characterizes this vessel?
The song "Born Free" which is also the name of a movie probably came out in the 1960's or 1970's. There is also a book titled Born Free. Aaron, as you may recall I sang all the words of the song all the words that I could recall--which was not much. Like I told you I did not see the movie nor read the book. I think it is about a wildlife biologist who rescues 2 lion cubs.
"BLUE BIRD OF HAPPINESS" 2nd song sung by Joan Baez on her album the album is titled "David's Album" it was written by Daryl Skraback not certain exact spelling of Daryl Skraback. The song was written in the 1960's. He wrote it in the library of the Federal Prison at Lompac, Calif.

8.What was the most memorable part of your sailing experience?
The most enjoyable part of my first cruise was being with everyone *forging through Buzzards Bay listening to grandpa tell about fishing, the classical music played, sitting alone up front, and the sunset dinner.
*(the first "bow pounding" we had)

9.Will Aaron and Brian make it around the world alive?
Yes I mean "aye aye"(see 1st part of my answer to question #5) Aye Aye you both will safely make it circumnavigating around the earth. YOu will be safe yet bold sailors.