I first met Hoppy around 1975 and although I was based at the San Diego Naval Undersea Center I had the good fortune to become one of his Thin-Line Towed Array gang. Hoppy’s gang enjoyed a yearly “all expenses paid” two week cruise in the Bahamas. Our yacht was the RV Daniel Harris, a rusty old vessel that vented its diesel exhaust onto the back deck where we assembled test arrays for towing. Worse though, the boat did not allow alcoholic beverages. Here‘s how we solved the problem: I always brought aboard a large chest full of various repair materials - including plastic lab bottles of solvents like MEK which happens to be a clear liquid… normally. After dark, Hoppy and I would meet on the 01 deck to enjoy the night sky AND some “special” MEK - red in color, cabernet red. In later years, Hoppy and I would enjoy wine-in-a-box while on the Nile, on safari in Kenya, rafting through the Grand Canyon and on the deck of the Beach Pond cottage. Over the years we also enjoyed many exquisite $100 bottles of fine cabernet with, and compliments of, our good friend, John Chlupsa. Today those expensive cabernets in their beautiful bottles with their beautiful corks are largely forgotten. It is those wines shared from boxes and plastic bottles that are most tightly bound together with wonderful memories of happy times with Hoppy.