We've all been at this for a number of years, and we're all getting older. What they say about planet Earth is true. No one is getting out alive.

But Jon was a special individual. He and I spent a few days together delivering a Neptunus from Ontario to Annapolis. My mom had just died and Jon called to invite me on the delivery, thinking I might need a diversion from my grief. He was right. Jon regaled me with things I had posted on the old Cruising World message board. Things I had long forgotten, but Jon hadn't. He had an enormous capacity for remembering minutiae. Things I had posted that I didn't think important, but Jon did.

Yep. The internet and the world is stunned at the loss of Jon Eisberg. But his was a life not to be mourned, but celebrated. And you are a good guy for decommisioning Chancey, Bernie. Like Jon, there are few like you.