A Million Thanks

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If we'd kept a construction log, our helpers would have logged 100,000 hours easily. With humility and gratitiude we thank all those patient souls who invested minutes, hours, days or years of donated time in this project.

Their continuous efforts, including physical work, mental planning and emotional support have literally kept us pointed toward our very long term goal.

We've been accused quite often of constructing an Ark, but without Noah's grasp of timelines. A project such as this does not move forward in a straight line, at least the way we do it! It is much more a zig-zag kind of path. The miracle is that people have appeared like itinerant birds, helped by building or singing their song and then mostly darted away to their next adventure. To stretch this metphor a little further; we've promised a lot of boat rides but if they all came back to roost on the same day... we would surely founder.

At our launch in June, 2006 we made our best effot to name and thank all those who have shared the land leg of our cruising journey. This sharing has been the very best part of our memories to date.

To misquote the Beatles: We get by with a LOT of help from our friends. We're looking forward to a happy future and a lot more fun with these fine folks.

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#1 Carpentry Wizard
This amazing person appeared weekly, for years...measuring, designing, cutting, fitting and finishing the interior; taking us from bare-faced plain to super pretty.