This BB lost a lot of folks at the CWSB to CSBB transition, though, there's no denying that. As for me as a poster, I've been in the dry hole of boating country for several years. I'll tell you, Tom, if I knew how things were gonna turn out for me, I'da never built Jaunty. Jaunty should have been/is to most intents and purposes a trailer camping boat that I'd intended to have built/build in a year and be out going to small boat events around the country. Took so damn long to recover from the guy who did such a crappy job on the hull build that my infrastructure, like America's, got to be crumbling faster than i could keep up with. Now I don't sail....having fallen off of three boats in almost as many years....and damned if I'm not even motoring right now due to unforeseen, ain't they all, circumstances.

I reckon I'm beyond captaining my own sailing ship, as it were, and even though I'm still under 70 I'm getting closer to the old fart that gets invited to go out once in a blue moon on other people's boats. In Mac where I've lived for 23 years THAT wasn't gonna happen. Hell, I've lost interest in arguing finer points of sailing or building boats with almost everyone, never get to the eastern shore, just flat out have no stories to tell, no pretty boats of which to take pictures. If I move up to the P.T. area there will be better opportunities but also, I'm in line for parts off the shelf for several personal intersections, no stoplight included. If'n this move up to P.T. happens perhaps there will be a confluence of infrastructure improvements, spirit, and opportunity to set me back on the path of occasional photos, brilliant repartee, and frequent boat rides. But I digress. Still, I hope for some memorable trips in Jaunty after all the divorce/finding new place in the world 'stuff' is better resolved and farther in the rear view mirror. At this moment objects in the mirror are closer than they look.