Our best friends in the whole wide world just pulled into Shelter Bay Marina several days ago. They're on a big catamaran with a noisy generator, whoops, I mean 'Uhane, a Whitby 42 with green canvas.

Stop by and say hi to Bryan (aka "Rat Bastard" or "RB"), Debbie (watercolorist extraordinaire) and Lil (Buddha Cat.) Tell 'em Rick and Kristel sent you over.

They'll be there a couple months while Debbie flies back to the states for some medical stuff. She'll be living in our v-berth here in St. Pete for a couple weeks. We (Kristel and I) will be flying down to move aboard 'Uhane for a visit in the San Blas in December.

I can't help you with the catamaran, although, Bryan and Deb have a LOT of some, uh, unusual country music on board. Maybe with some really big speakers aimed in the right direction . . .

Oh, and they've got a blog:

http://www.sailblogs.com/member/uhane74/

Hope to meet you guys some day.