In 1939 my father chartered the Lorna D which was a Yawl and maybe about a 50 to 60 foot sailboat in Vancouver, Canada to take them to Tahiti and the Tuomoto Archipeligo far away. So, his name was Fred like me and he and his first wife and his younger brother financed the charter to Tahiti. My father was 24 then and worked for his father as an electrician along with his younger brother who I think then was 22 and his wife I believe was around 22 also who he had married at her age 17 and his age 21.
He took with them the "I AM" green books as they are often called by people who read them because the covers are usually Green which to people are "I AM" students the color green is associated with financial success and success in general in life. They were written between 1929 and 1932 I believe by Guy W. Ballard also known as Godfre Ray King as his pseudonym as the author of these books. They as you can see very much believed in positive thinking and that words carried power in them when you used them correctly. This was a part of this religion that I too was eventually raised in by my mother who was my Dad's 2nd wife he married in 1946 two years before I was born. The three books he took to read on the way I think were "Unveiled Mysteries", "The Magic Presence" and "The 'I AM' Discourses".
IF you can imagine in 1939 just how different it was then to now. So, they first sailed to Seattle from Vancouver, Canada where my Dad and his first wife and brother all lived and worked. Then they sailed down to Los Angeles and the last land they saw was Catalina Island just off the coast of Los Angeles and Long beach Harbor. there is a song called "26 miles across the sea Santa Catalina is waitin for me"
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Anyway, my Dad and his first wife and brother all sailed 40 days without any sight of land
to Tahiti which they got to only using a Sextant and the sun and moon and stars for navigation then.
So, they had to be pretty accurate in their navigation to do this at that time.
Then on Tahiti Dad took 16 mm color movies of this experience and told me that they rented a house
there for $2.50 a month for them to live in. They stayed down there about 2 years until they realized that
World war II was about to start and realized that they better go home to Seattle. So, they caught the Great
white Steamship that came to Tahiti about once a month as it was doing it's rounds. It's next stop was Honolulu
Hawaii. Dad's first wife stayed in Honolulu and worked at the newspaper there for awhile before returning to
Seattle to live. Though they stayed together through world war II it was pretty hard on everyone sort of like the
coronavirus is hard on everyone now so eventually they broke up around 1946 and she moved to Florida or something
like that. Dad realized he was more of a workaholic while he was in Tahiti and realized he wasn't cut out not to be
busy all the time like he thought he would be happy in paradise even though they had a lot of fun spearfishing
and diving with goggles because masks weren't made that much yet. They mostly only had underwater goggles
at that point. They arrived I believe in Seattle before Pearl Harbor was attacked but I think that my dad's first wife was
still there when Pearl Harbor was attacked working for the newspaper. This is why she came home to Seattle, Washington.
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