Family Ingredients

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Interviewer

I always find it amusing how wherever I go in this world, whether it be in a taxi cab or a convenience store, Jack Johnson is playing on the stereo. He's always singing his songs of love and sustainability and ocean and nature and spreading it around the world. I wonder where did this come from and I have to think it had a lot to do with being raised on a North shore and being modeled by his father Jeff Johnson. Jeff moves with the currents of the ocean much like his son Jack. Jack's oldest brother Trent is the keeper of the family boat that was designed by Jack's Dad and a boat builder from Molokai named Kurt Clark. Do you want to get the lures on now. Yeah, might as well. If we hook up a fish we'll try to turn the boat down wind. I've often heard that lures are handed down from generation to generation, prized lures. Yeah, so I don't know if we can have a shot of these? These are like secret lures. (men laughing) Yeah there's definitely like lures that work on the West side and some that work on the North shore. -

Man

Oh wow. These are North shore lures. Pull the anchor up and head out. We were heading straight for a place where they remember as kids. (slow guitar music) (man laughing) So here we are, this is your family boat. Yep, this is it. This is a boat we designed with my Dad when he was about 21, 22 something like that. He sailed to Hawaii by himself on a little boat. Like a 25 foot boat. He always kind of jokes around that's how he learned to sail. Towards the end of his life, we started working on this boat together. It was a really fun project. I can tell that this boat played a major role in your life growing up on the North shore. What is your fondest food memory growing up out here? Yeah, I'd say my fondest food memory for me would really tie to just my favorite memories growing up and especially I brought along some smoked fish today because to me that's something my Dad used to have around a lot. So whenever I taste it, it takes me right back to the harbor. It takes me right back to being out in his work shed hearing his friend sitting around talking story. Or doing the repairs on the board. Those flavors kind of bring me back to these memories right here and this spot right here is where we used to come a lot. I love it.