Ahoy, all hands! Anyone still around who attended the first Trawler Fest back in 1996, August 9-11 at Port Orchard in Puget Sound and October 11-13 at Solomons in the Chesapeake? I'm preparing an article on the founding of Trawler Fest for PassageMaker Magazine and need help remembering how it was way back then. I'm especially interested in the years 1996-2002. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering since 1997 http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com Your host at TrawlerCrawler.net since 2009 http://www.trawlercrawler.net Flashback: I started Trawler Fest in 1996, with the support of West Marine, one year before launching Trawler World List (TWL) which continues today as Trawlers & Trawlering List (T&T). Great Loop List was started during a Great-Loop gathering at an early Trawler Fest at Solomons. Here's how Trawler Fest was first announced on Sailing Forum at CompuServe: West Marine Trawler Fest is a special new event open to all makes of motorboats and motorsailers and the people who cruise, voyage and live aboard them, and the people who want to. Trawler Fest is a rendezvous, an in-water boat show, seminars and workshops, social activities, a weekend of fun on the water, and a cruise in company the week following for those on vacation. We are thrilled to have Jim and Susy Sink, who recently completed a circumnavigation of the world aboard Salvation II, a Nordhavn 46, as our special guests of honor at Trawler Fest. The slide presentation on their great adventure will doubtless be one of the highlights of the weekend. If you'd like more information via email, just let me know. If you want an event brochure and registration form mailed to you, email me your address. Indicate your preference for Puget Sound August 9-11 or Chesapeake October 11-13. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Trawler World Productions Producers of West Marine Trawler Fest in Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Publishers of Trawler World Online