Posted on February 14, 2010.
Rigger Lee Interview: The Adventurer enigmatic Enigma
1. An obscure speech or writing 2. Something hard to understand or explain 3: an inscrutable and mysterious person.
If ever there was one man who meet the definition, it would be the world Rigger BASE Lee. He will tell you it is an open book, but for many it fits the bill. I put the interview with a moving document of the standard 58 questions for this series of profiles and I got back, where some of the most intriguing responses. In Lee, you will discover a man who claims not to have defined objectives and yet has accomplished much in his life.
Lee's story begins in Irving, Texas, when he spent most of his life, referring to his mother's house in Euless as his residence for the purpose of collecting his mail. His partner in "shop", friends and family have become accustomed to Lee being "far" from its home port for 6 months or more of the year. Lee is known to have packed and gone for a month or two at a time, "roam the countryside."
Lee Enterprises has succeeded in "workshop" includes a shop sign, rigging loft, and the company T-shirt. A current project is the construction of the sail covers, but he still thinks "the shop" as more of a gathering place "for when they" are not offside, "as that place of business.
An effort 37 'ketch rigged became the latest addition to Lee toys to his fascination for sailing has come full circle. The recent purchase is moored in Houston, Texas. Lee explained his reasoning behind the fascination with the veil. "One of my friends had bought a Hobie 16 feet. I was with him on this couple of times, and about, I was hooked. Hobie was too funny and with it a sense of freedom that comes with sailing. There is no engine and it beats the hell of the paddle. "He then elaborated," I spent one month on Lake Powell with a kayak and sailing you beat the hell of paddling 250 miles in the wind that blows. I developed an interest in sailing before these experiments. I remember taking a ferry across the North Sea. Stood by the window and watched the waves changes as we left the harbor mouth. I have the same emotions when I'm in the mountains, the desert or flying. You can not imagine three different environments and yet they bring forth the same feeling. I guess all this is to be beyond the frontiers of civilization and society rules. I leave behind me all the pitfalls of false and regulations that are supposed to ensure my safety at the expense of my freedom. I do not know what it is exactly, but I find that I appreciate as moved as I do for other adventure sports that I participate in. "
Lee did not have an iPod filled with music, on the contrary, he thinks that the first thing he was asked about his book on tape. The books are a part of his life. While stranded in the Arctic with a disabled snowmobile, he read a book by Tanya Abbie entitled "Maiden Voyage". It is also a big fan of Captain Joshua Slocum books a. As one of his reading he listed "West is the Night" by Beryl Markham; the story of a woman raised in Africa, which in 1930 became a bush pilot in Africa, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. I felt that the adventurers and explorers solo Lee read the books would consider him a kindred soul.
Lee was a student of 19 when he was baptized into the world of skydiving. As a college gymnast, he had always wanted to bungee jumping a try. During the autumn of his second year of college, he signed for bungee jumping from a hot air balloon at the local airport for small outside Dallas, Texas. When he arrived the following Saturday.
