This list is fascinating!  The subjects range from,  needing help on how
to
spend one's money to complex fuel and mechanical advice

When I was a boy, I used to wish for a pen pal..someone from a place not
anything like mine.  We could share our experiences and tell about our
lives.  I never imagined this......

It just makes me wonder sometimes...who are these people we are
rubbing "mice" with??

This list is fascinating!  The subjects range from,  needing help on how
to
spend one's money to complex fuel and mechanical advice.  Should I sew or
not to sew, batteries always a wondrous subject and how to make them last
as
long as we can and buy them cheaper.  The occasional post with no question
to make us ponder our own boats safety or construction, boats grounding
and
sinking,  how to avoid paying taxes, watching TV wherever we go and
talking
to others from the far corners of the earth by means never imagined just a
few years ago.  Small boats and huge boats they all have to float....and
what fun talking about them!

Amazing stuff to say the least!  I used to listen in wonder as my
great-grandfather and grandfather would tell about the time before engines
and electricity, not having an inside bathroom or running water.  Raising
and growing one's own food.

When I was a boy, I used to wish for a pen pal..someone from a place not
anything like mine.  We could share our experiences and tell about our
lives.  I never imagined this......

It just makes me wonder sometimes...who are these people we are rubbing
"mice" with??

Bob Clinkenbeard
24' custom trailer trawler "Bobbin Along"
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-aboardbobbinalong

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I like the idea of introducing ourselves -- my name is Bill.  We bought our
first GB 32 woodie in 1994, went to a 53 Alaskan in 1997, and have now
dropped down to another GB 32 woodie that we keep at our dock behind our
house in Bel Marin Keys (Novato, CA).  Bel Marin Keys has two large salt
water lagoons - we live on the North lagoon that has an area of about 0.3
sq miles (nautical) and a minimum depth of  7 feet.  Both lagoons have
locks that give access to San Francisco Bay.  The locks and lagoons are
maintained by the residents through a Community Service District and may be
the only privately owned locks in the US.  In my 32 I make it to downtown
San Francisco in about 3 hours - less on a strong ebb.

It's nice to have the boat behind the house, particularly an old woodie -
it's a short walk to my shop!

And I really like the expression "rubbing mice".  It's a great term for
the way so much of our communication is done today.  I built the first
mouse in 1963 at Stanford Research Institute (it was a woodie) and none of
us could imagine where it would go!

Bill English
GB 32 Woodstar
Novato, CA

The locks and lagoons are maintained
by the residents through a Community Service District and may be the only
privately owned locks in the US.