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