Spirited and feisty, humble and embodied, Patrick Nemec rode dirt bikes, raced jet skis, fixed B.M.W.s, fished like a pro and was always one of the best athletes on Bolinas’s sports teams. “He was poetry in motion,” said friend Dee O’Neal, who watched him grow up with her son Miles Feld. Mr.

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