Glad to see someone corrected the spelling.
I am keeping my account open so I can continue to correspond via PM with the couple of people I like to correspond with.
But as I told Pau Hana-- whose company, Anchor Marine, has been our marine insurance broker for the last 14+ years and i
highly recommend them no matter what part of the country you're in-- 9,000+ posts to an internet forum, and a recreational one at that, is downright embarrassing to say nothing of being immoral and probably illegal, at least in this state. The more I looked at that number the more ridiculous I felt, and a lot of members have made it clear they feel the same way. So to hit 10,000 would be unacceptable.
I joined the forum right after John and Doug started it in 2007 as an antidote to the very strictly controlled T&T list. I continue to commend them for their willingness to give it a shot and the effort they put into their endeavor. They did the recreational motor cruising community a huge service.
But had I known I would become this active I would have-- or should have-- pulled the plug right off the bat. A lot of people today wish I had.
. But I didn't and here we are at this ludicrous number of posts.
So enough's enough.
While my forum participation was certainly prolific it actually didn't take up much of my time. For whatever reason-- parents who were professional writers and published authors perhaps--- I can be a fast writer when I need to be and I dashed off TF posts while waiting for planes or during forced downtime while editing or waiting for a crew to set up the next shot or whatever. Nevertheless time is a finite commodity and I have other things I should be using it for.
I'll for sure peruse the forum fairly frequently at first just out of sheer habit and perhaps send a PM if I feel I have something useful to pass on to a poster. But I'm making it as hard as I can to access it.
I think I've got a couple of posts left to 9999. Or maybe this one's it. I'll know when I hit Submit.
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