Thank you so much for your kind offer when we are able to buy a boat I will indeed take you up on your offer. We have a condo on Roatan just north of you. We just came home here in VA where its 23 degrees. Guess wfhere I wish I was . In a message dated 1/5/2010 9:47:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, danshank217@gmail.com writes: Robert, Once you get a boat, contact us as we are retired and freewheeling. I have a 50 ton Maritime Licence but would love to help out in any cruising as I have no boat of my own. Am presently in Nicaragua studying Spanish and looking for a ride somewhere. Am avialable every year Oct-April. Summers are spent in B.C. where I have a fishing vessel and small condo. Cheers, Dan and Janet On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Georgs Kolesnikovs <gxk@earthlink.net>wrote: > All hands-- > > Join me in welcoming Robert Franklin to the List. > > > My wife Patty and I live in Lynchburg, Virginia and are certain to > > be the most inexperienced and least knowledgeable members of the > > list. We have never owned a motor boat. > > > > We currently run a childcare business but in a former life I was a > > chemical engineer and still do some consulting from time to time. We > > hope to be able to sell our business in several years and purchase a > > trawler type boat to cruise primarily in the Caribbean. To that end > > we have been attending Trawlerfest for a few years, subscribe to the > > Trawlering and Trawler List ( where I have gleaned a great deal of > > information -when a few of the members are not arguing about > > minutiae) and joined the Power Squadron and Seven Seas Cruising > > Association where we are currently taking boating courses and online > > seminars respectively. > > > > At the Trawlerfests we have visited catamarans like the Endeavour 48 > > Trawlercat and more recently the Mainecat 47 which have impressed us > > very much. > > > > Recently on the Trawler list someone made reference to the catamaran > > list and I thought that joining would allow me to learn from those > > who have experience with this type of boat. > > > > Since we are both in our 50's and are coming to boating late in life > > we will probably only buy one boat so we want to make the most > > informed decision possible. > > > > I am afraid that for the time being I will be more of a user of > > information than a provider but hope that will change after we buy a > > boat and gain experience to share with other members of the list. > > > > Again thank you for letting me join the list and for the warm welcome. > > > > Robert Franklin > > Robert, don't be afraid to post questions to the group. One question > at a time with a descriptive subject line will net the best results. > > --Georgs > > Georgs Kolesnikovs > Power Catamaran World > http://www.powercatworld.com > _______________________________________________ > Power-Catamaran Mailing List _______________________________________________ Power-Catamaran Mailing List