Following up on a transformative sailing experience when he was 11 , Crosby purchased a 59-foot , John Alden – designed schooner named '' Mayan '' with his Byrds settlement . On Twitter in 2019 , Crosby said that the late Peter Tork of the Monkees loaned him the money to buy the '' Mayan '' . In the decades before he sold the boat in 2014 , Crosby sailed it thousands of miles in the Pacific and Caribbean . He has credited the '' Mayan '' as being a songwriting muse ; he wrote some of his best-known songs aboard the boat , including " Wooden Ships , " " The Lee Shore , " " Page 43 , " and " Carry Me . " Crosby has been politically active throughout his professional career . He publicly questioned the report of the Warren Commission covering the Assassination of John F. Kennedy onstage during the Byrds ' appearance at the Monterey Festival in 1967 . He identifies as a pacifist and was a well-known opponent over the US involvement in the Vietnam War , though he has also defended the right to own guns
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
David Crosby