Boat: A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, Death, and Life Everlasting - Michael Baughman Audiobook

Written by Michael Baughman
Read by Traber Burns
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged

This is the heartwarming true story of the unlikely relationship between Boat, an old Hawai’ian sage, and a young boy in need of a father figure.

When ten-year-old Michael Baughman moves to Hawai’i with his parents, he is troubled and confused. His father doesn’t provide the guidance Baughman needs, and the boy doesn’t know who to turn to. When a larger-than-life Hawai’ian beach boy named Boat takes Baughman under his wing, the boy finds a teacher and mentor. Boat is 285 pounds of solid muscle and gentle spirituality. He introduces the boy to the ways of Hawai’ian mysticism, offering simple, profound wisdom that helps Baughman thrive in an otherwise lonely childhood. Even after Baughman leaves the islands seven years later, the unlikely friendship endures for the rest of Boat’s life, influencing and inspiring the author to this day.

Baughman’s narrative begins with a distressed boy at a Pittsburgh Pirates game and ends more than six decades later, with himself as a content old man experiencing a miracle in Mexico. With a photographic memory, Baughman recalls virtually verbatim every significant conversation he had with Boat. Boat spoke Hawai’ian Pidgin English, and its unique lilt and rhythm grace this touching memoir. This is a testament to friendship and the revelations provoked by wisdom in unexpected places.

Audio Release Date:
June 1 2012

3 hrs and 51 mins