Jack Owen
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Location | Palm Beach - Interlachen, Florida, United States |
| Introduction | Spent my childhood trying to get into the navy - and my youth getting out. The reality was more Bligh and BS than I was prepared to tolerate. But between the service, sailing and journalism assignments I managed to see, feel, taste, hear and (phew) smell my fill. Some of that was recorded in newspapers, magazines and a couple of books during the past half-century. |
| Interests | Books and boats occupy most of my life either in reality or daydreams. Combining the two, by reading and or writing about them, is as close to heaven as I'm likely to get. |
| Favorite movies | African Queen, Cruel Sea, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Cold in Alex, On the Beach, Overlanders, Christmas Carol |
| Favorite music | Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov (forever),MJQ, Temperence Seven, Flanders & Swann, Edith Piaf, Claudine Longet, Segovia, Billy Cotton, Ted Heath, Jaco Pastorius, Peggy Lee, Horowitz, Ravi Shanka, Holst, Delius, Debussy, Wagner,Mahler, Beatles... |
| Favorite books | C.S. Forester, Graham Greene, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, John Buchan, Dennis Wheatley, Richmal Cromton, R.F. Delderfield, Neville Shute, John Mortimer, and anyone who wrote about solo sailing and cicumnavigation - except Donald Crowhurst. |