*****I first ran into Alex around the neighborhood because he was promoting subscriptions to the evening Outlook. Just a bit later he turned up at the breakwater. I suspect he was holding this board by the nose because it was broken He got so frustrated trying to fix it (the resin wasn't setting up right and kept dripping off)that he finally started shooting big bee-bees into the bottom with a sling shot. So I offered to buy it (cheap) and he was quite happy to be rid of it. Fixing the nose was easy for me but it was a big pain in the neck trying to get bee-bees out. I still have the board....
*****I think Alex was Cuban/America. The last time I saw him he was planning to go into the Marines....