This stuff is just so good. Grace, keep on writing. Watch out Erma Bombeck! I only signed on to find a boat, learn to equip and sail it. Instead I get humor that Mark Twain would be proud to have written. Oh, and my first sail is tomorrow! Enough of this "joy of getting the new boat ready!" Ron Stanton in Michigan M-249, Bonaventure ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.