Georgs, Eva and Ron Stob here. Long time since we have been in contact with you. Good to hear from you. Our first Trawler Fest was Melbourne, FL, April 15-18, 1999, which was the second Florida Trawler Fest. Believe it or not, I still have all of the original programs, some emails and information from all those Fests so if you need lists of speakers, etc., for the years from 1999 through 2005, I may have them. What kind of information do you want for your article? Early March 1999 over two thousand copies of the first printing of our new book, “Honey, Let’s Get a Boat…”: A Cruising Adventure of America’s Great Loop, had just been delivered to our home and we were searching for ways to market it. Eva was surfing the web and stumbled across your website about the Trawler Fest. We contacted you and you invited us there. You made room for us and since Dennis and Esther Bruckel were already scheduled to talk on the Great Circle (we’ve always called it the Great Loop since that is what Waterway Guides called it in 1994), you added a seminar on Locking Through which we gave. Our first Great Loop seminar was at Solomons in the fall of 1999 and we continued making presentations on the Great Loop for Trawler Fests for several years. The Trawler World Great Loop List was started in October 2001 following the gathering at the Solomons Trawler Fest that fall. Tom Caywood was the program coordinator and other presenters at that Fest included Claiborne Young, Fred Myers, Bruce Kessler, Bob Smith and many others. We always thought Skipper Bob was at that one, too, but he wasn't and we never met him until the fall event in Solomons. We surely enjoyed those years when the 4 of us authors (Skipper Bob, Claiborne, Fred and us) and Maria Russell of Women Aboard got together at these events 2-4 times a year. That was great fun. Let us know if we can help. Ron and Eva Stob still in Greenback, TN _www.greatloop.com_ (http://www.greatloop.com)