Welcome back Georgs. I hope you can share tales of your adventures with us. Bill, 'atsa NICE looking boat there! Bill F., pretty nifty looking boat too! Can you guys share some of your design and construction ideas/tales of woe and intrugue! Some of us weren't taking notes on your earlier postings. It will be nice to get a little more personal stuff on the list. I really do enjoy the recent very technical design discussions here as they stir my imagination -- so how can I get some of that on my boat? And I really don't mind the commercial announcements and info. -- I learn a great deal from it all. These are seldom disguised as non-commercial recommendations, usually presented as a link I can follow or not as I like. In today's heavilly advertised world we all have pretty good filters anyway. I do like the personal disclaimers I see on the Trawler list, identifying equipment and service reports as being from disinterested observers, happy customers (or not happy!), retailers, manufacturers, or whatever. So as we repopulate this list, I hope for a proliferation of lively and diverse discussions regarding our brand new and radical evolution in boating.