It's been a while since the last newsletter: we'd rather be busy doing something other than sit at the  keyboard, but thank you for your patience if you've been waiting for news.  The pictures some of you have contributed warm up cold mornings here at the yard just as Shary's able dog assistant Guiness offers to help us at every morning coffee break.  The tug restoration project continues to be a good source of winter work and a home for long saved hardware and odd pieces of wood.  But the schooner always comes first so that's why I'm on the computer and not out figuring out how to finish the plumbing on the Cadet.  Tug launching?  Someday.