Throughout
L. Ron Hubbard's richly diverse life, he also embraced,
from childhood, a profound love of the sea. He was a skilled
navigator and a Master Mariner licensed to sail ships on the
waters of any ocean. Mr. Hubbard served with distinction as a
naval officer during the Second World War, while in earlier years
he had already led several sea and land expeditions. In July 1940
he set out from Seattle, Washington aboard a large sailing vessel
he affectionately called, "The Maggie"—flying Flag 105
of the prestigious Explorers Club (one of three times he carried
an Explorers Club flag while on expedition)—to chart what were
then the uncertain hazards of the inland passage to Alaska and to
officially test an experimental radio-navigational device.
L. Ron Hubbard,
of course, brought his faithful typewriter along on that
adventurous Alaskan journey—he was, then and always, first and
foremost a writer. He once described his own writer's creed as
always
"… trying harder to make every word live and
breathe."
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