Thanks, Jim, for your public vote of support. The best way passagemakers like Peter Sheppard can support PUP is by periodically posting about the experiences and adventures they have while voyaging the world. As he seems to care about the future of PUP, when Peter jumps the Pacific next year, I'm sure he will keep us fully posted, about his preparations, the actual passage from the U.S. to Australia, and, afterward, the lessons learned. The cost of operating PUP as a mailing list is not huge as it's a relatively small list and I get a bulk rate for hosting it at the same service as Trawlers & Trawlering and other sister lists. Last year, the total cost was $1,732.50all which was covered by donations from subscribers. Happily, there are far more PUP subscribers who value and enjoy the list than those who carp about it. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering since 1997 http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com Your host at TrawlerCrawler.net since 2009 http://www.trawlercrawler.net > Georgs: I'd help support PUP just so i can be near "real passagemakers". Jim > Hughes > > >> Georgs, >> Happy to help out, even though the site seems to have withered and died. The >> oncept is great for us few real passagemakers on a power boat. >> lease tell me what are the costs? >> run a website for a Nordhavn model with Google. It costs me nothing. I can >> o the admin faster than it takes me to clean my teeth before I go to bed. >> Peter Sheppard

Georgs - I'm happy to contribute even if it has been a little quiet lately. And if there's a little left over have a drink for all your efforts and good work. Jon