BALTIMORE — When it comes to starting a business, passion is often the driving force.

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For one Baltimore veteran, that passion began with a magazine, a promise, and a whole lot of determination.

On the waters of the Patapsco River, Captain Bobby LaPin isn’t just charting a course — he’s living out a promise he made to himself years ago.

“I said to myself, if I get out of here alive, I'm going to go back home. I'm going to buy a sailboat and I'm going to live on it. And right over there is that sailboat,” LaPin said, pointing proudly toward the dock.Bobby served 5 and a half years in the United States Army as a Counterintelligence Special Agent — known as a 97 Bravo — stationed in Korea during 9/11.

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