You're welcome. Don't let the flamers get to you here. Most of the
regulars have been here for years and years and years so we are all used to
it (you develop a thick hide after awhile...) Sometimes you have to sift
through messages to get the answers you want or need...usually the first 3-4
replies to a question are valid and then the thread digresses...or
disintegrates...don't get discouraged. And if someone P's you O....make
sure you tell them so.

Rick wrote in message ...
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:38:23 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

In the spirit of friendship I offer this primer to the ng:
Scout, Haggie, Scotty, Loco,NoPony (steve), Doug are all Chesapeake and
surrounding areas sailors; Maxprop, John Cairns, myself and Horvath are
Great Lakes sailors (and Lonny when he has time to sail...)'; Bart I
believe
is in Connecticut or Massachusetts somewhere. I can't remember where
Jeff's
homeport is..but he sails Florida sometimes. Neal sits on a can in the
swampland surrounding the Bay of Florida; Bobsprit/BB sails in the matrix;
Jax is lost somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle; Thom is up by the Columbia
River in Oregon, which is also Michael's homeport when he's not on some
ship
somewhere that we can't mention; Mike and Lady Sailor live in CA but sail
Mexico, OZ and Taddy (Tadpole) and Peter Wiley are from various ports in
Australia; Nav (MC) is from New Zealand; Edgar's home port was in England
but now he lives in Norway; stevie summers and wally and Donal are all
from
great Britain; Martin is from Canada as is Mooron. Gilligan and all his
sockpuppets live in Colorado. It is up to you to figure out who his
puppets
are.

Thank you for the clarifications. Very thoughtful of you to provide
that primer.
Myself, I sail on Lake Winnipsaukee which is in New Hampshire. I
should rephrase that. I try to sail. I'm am very much a rookie.
I've wanted to seriously learn how to sail for many years, but until
this past year circumstances prevented it. Now I am in my second
childhood and have the sailing bug quite seriously. I own my own small
boat and am enjoying learning about it and doing things to it to
improve it. I plan to eventually move it t the ocean for sailing
around the Maine islands. I have no current desire to sail around the
world as so many new to sailing seem to, just some coastal cruising in
waters somewhat known to me.

Again, thank you for the clarification.