One thing is for sure, as I read thru the webb site, I realize that I have forgotten so much about Newporters that I am stunned and have trouble recognizing a lot of the posts. BUT, they all sound authentic, and I promise I did the best I could between rebuilding a Newporter and being in personal contact with so many owners - like Karen and Jasper, living on their boat on an island in British Columbia. My wife and I spent a few days there, and shared some of Jasper's "wisdom" over a bottle of rum?scotch?burbon?, hell, I can't remember...........

            And I had, and still have, the greatest pardner ever to take on the task of what I call the "resurrection" of information" on Newporters-

CAPTAIN CLYDE PHILPS. actually built and delivered Newporters back in the day.  TALK ABOUT THE WALKING ENCYCLOPIDIA ON NEWPORTERS. If you really want to know about how to sail a Newporter, or the structure of a Newporter, study the huge number of pages that Clyde patiently wrote for this website. If your interested in Newporters, you are missing the boat if you don't. He and I continue to be in close contact, though probably talk about getting old more than Newporters.  

     I am 75 now, and still enjoy working on my Newporter that I am thinking about naming "Old and in the Way".  There is a generation of Newporter owners "aging out" now, but the ones I am close to have done justice to improving and maintaining their boats.

        So that aging out thing includes me. I am hopeful that my boat will live a long a fertile life, considering that I rebuilt the hull from the keel up.

EVEN THE APRON (which is the foot wide, 6 layers of 3/4 quarter marine plywood epoxied together, which is the structural pivot of the boat, connecting the lead keel to the floor tiimbers and frames. Of course all that is documented with endless photos on the site.  To my knowledge the elaborate pumping system in the bilge has never been activated.

       I am more concerned about the tomb of information contained on this website, and in my archives, than my boat.  I put this out there......

The time is closing in where the Newporter community needs to come together and make some plan for this information to be preserved.

More to come later. I will be on the site at least weekly for the next year, taking care of business, and going through the new members list.