wrote:
Heeeyyyyy Rec.Boaters!

I decided to pop back in and am pleasantly surprised to see a few
familiar "faces" are still hangin' out here.

I've been out of the boating scene for awhile (Gawd - Four years?!!).
Got married and am now doing the Landlubber thing (Took me d*mn near
forEVER to unload the two stinkpotters I had!).

...And I've switched from "too many boats" to "too many Harleys" (Sucks
to be me!!! ;-)

Life on Terra Firma is good, though. I'm finding I really enjoy having
things like a bona-fide BATHROOM, CLOSETS and a GARAGE - as opposed to
a shower the size of a phone-booth (w/10 gallons of hot water),
microscopic hanging lockers and my car rusting in the marina parking
lot!).

And I can run multiple appliances simultaneously!!!!

(But I *really* miss being rocked to sleep every night!)

Anyway, I'm babbling (as some of you may remember - I *do* have a
tendency to do! ;-). I found I just couldn't stay away from boating!

...And I have a soft-spot in my heart for old boats "in need of
lovin'!" So I've just adopted a 1967 Texas Tornado mono-hulled sailing
dinghy. Hull #6!!! 16'6" LOA, 5'7" beam, swing-keel with a 160'
sailplan (I think she'll be FAST!).

I've even (kinda) revived the old webpage. I've decided to post
progress on "The Restoration." This is a restoration where I hope to
remain "true" to the boat's origins - rather than my old duct-tape,
chewing gum, and globs-of-epoxy methods of repair (Necessitated, of
course, by springing a leak directly over the v-berth at midnight,
during a rainstorm)! I'll try to maintain a BoatBlog (probably not
daily, but I'll TRY).

URL: http://www.imqtpi.com/Dink.htm

If anybody out in rec.boats land has had any experience with this type
of boat, I'd welcome any advice!

And I'll probably start lurking - maybe even posting - here at
rec.boats again!

"It's good to be back!!!"

IMQTPI (Nancy)
harleynan95123(at)yahoo(dot)com

Hi Nancy...nice to see you back.
Be wary of the 'JimH gang'. They look down their noses ay any vessel
less than 30 feet.
Sure will be nice to have another 'sailor' aboard.