Bill, Great thread, and message in your post! I found the list in 1998. I don't remember how... I still remember many of the members from those days. Thankfully a lot of them are still here. I got my Solo-Right from Gary because of this list. Eventualy my email was overrun by the posts, and I unsubscribed. I could hear Dogger panting on my trail, and thought I could sense Sonny's crosshairs so I rejoined. Though I now read the posts at the Yahoo group site. As to how meaningful it, and all of you have become for me, here I am just home from work at 3:30A.M. and checking in! My thanks to you all! Brian--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "b_cash_98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill, > > Thanks for posting the pc about how the list got started. It got me > thinking about how we have all found our way here. > > I joined the list in the spring of 2000. I had just purchased my > first cat, a 1973 H16. A friend had the boat in his front yard, we > were leaving his house and heading for NW Pa. to go trout fishing > for the weekend. I asked Walt what was up with the catamaran in his > yard. He asked if I wanted to buy it. A few minutes later I owned > what was to become the PPE . Little did I know how much this chance > purchase would change our lives. > > The following week at work I was surfing the net looking for > information on hobie cats, I knew next to nothing about them, and > never sailed one. I remember while doing a search that I came > across a random post about "the butt cheek differential" This took > me to "on the wire" and from on the wire I found my way to "the > list". > > The list, on the wire, and thebeachcats.com have been an > unbelievable source of learning and information for me. I have to > believe being associated with this group has taken years off our > learning curve. On top of that it has introduced me to the greatest > bunch of folks I could ever wish to meet, some I have met in person, > some on the phone and some through their posts to the list. The > funny thing is I feel like I know them all as if I have had them for > real time sailing friends for all of my life. > > I'm sorry I never had the chance to talk to Dave Anderson, but my > thanks go out to him. Also I want to say thanks to Bill M. for On > the Wire and Damon for his hard work, here and at thebeachcats.com > to keep this forum up and running. On top of this (this is starting > to sound like an acceptance speck at an awards dinner) I also want > to say thanks to all of you who contribute (both on topic and off > topic) to the list and make this community the great place it is. > > OK now how did you find "the list"? > > Bill
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