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No doubt. It is one of his classics to justify his meager existance on
a small little boat welded to a chain attached to an old chevy engine
block.

Remembering his web site, it was actually quite nice (other than the color
selections) for a small little boat. His original personna and I do share
one philosophy, have a small and managable boat and make it the way you want
instead being a slave to too much boat and too many systems.

Too bad he didn't do more with the boat. Given his ego, I'm sure we would
have seen pictures if he'd ever managed a cruise to anyplace interesting. I
doubt his existance is so grand as being on a mooring at this point. His
net presence is too 24/7 not to have a permanent Internet connection. I'm
fairly sure now that the boat on the web site was real even if the crew
wasn't and that he picked up quite a bit of boating and cruising knowledge,
even if he didn't make much use of it. It would take something much more
definitive than over the top boasting though to convince me that he didn't
lose the boat about the same time the web site disappeared and is now
"cruising" from some sort of institution or shelter with free web terminals.

Sad, really, he could have taken that boat some interesting places.

I should talk. I'm here typing on a beautiful Maine day, checking on some
work stuff and waiting for my son to return from a summer job hunt. We'll
be sailing later in the day though. My other son and I are then going to
spend Friday - Tuesday on the boat.

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Roger Long