John L. "Jack" Mayle

Uncle Jack saved my life and the lives of members of my family. He & his brother Jim had a wooden Chris Craft cabin cruiser in the family and would go boating with friends & relatives for pleasure and fishing. I think this happened in the late 1970´s when I was a teenager. Weather forecasts of the day weren´t as predictable and we got caught out in shallow water in a storm. He kept her bow facing into the swells. If we´d have taken one sideways I might not be here to write this. I can...