On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:54:40 -0500, Tamaroak wrote:

I was out walking off Easter dinner with my brother and we spotted a large
sailboat on the hard in the middle of a field in St. Cloud, Minnesota, not
a usual spot for such a boat. We began to look around and found it to be a
37' steel sailboat that a real craftman had spent 18 years building in his
back yard so he and his wife could sail around the world when he retired.
What a boat, everything new and first class.

As it turned out, they launched it last fall in the Mississippi River
heading south, went a few miles and got hung up on a wing dam. The builder
broke his hand, they turned around, brought the boat home and put it up
for sale. They never even got the mast up....


Not at all questioning your veracity, but this story just doesn't sound
right. Would you let a broken hand put an end to 18 years of work and
dreams? I wouldn't. Perhaps, there is more to the story.