I started this website in 2005. I did it for two reasons. One reason was to share our experiences as new boaters and cruisers. The other was that I wanted to build a website from scratch. This website has come a long way since I started hosting it on an old PC in a spare bedroom. I've written everything myself, except for the WordPress code that I use for my Blog.

I'm happy to keep it up and share with my fellow boaters, cruisers, website developers, and even RVers, but it costs me about $126 a year for domain and hosting expenses. I tried advertising on the website to recoup some of that. The ads were provided by Google AdSense, and are supposed to be relevant to the content of the site. But they take up space and bandwidth and use additional data. Also, we have made less than $30 over the lifetime of the website—we decided to try something different.

I removed the ads and made a link for donations. If we get more than we need, we will donate the excess to a good boating cause. If you find this website useful, please consider a small donation—anything will be greatly appreciated.

Thank You, Ron and Fran