My motivation for this site.

[bob mitchell]

As you can see, I have hull 113 with no masts. I got "Wilson" about a year ago, and have made contact with several newporter owners, in an effort to get mast specifications. What has become obvious is there is no central location for Newporter owners to get together and discuss in detail their on going restorations, history and adventures. There are quite a few Newporters that are changing hands, so we need to create a site of common wisdom and information that will serve the Newporter community. I have made contact with many people, one who has kept up with the Newporter owner roster, and a couple of others who have done extensive rennovations (one has an excellent site with informative photos). I would like to give credit to these people, but not before I ask permission. They have all been helpful. I have also made contact with some owners that face a lack of critical information (including myself). Hopefully we can remedy that situation.
Ning provides a free social network that seems to fit our needs. Hopefully anyone who joins will set up their MY PAGE with photos, history, and discussions of their boat. In the DISCUSSION area or the FORUM area we can discuss specific projects, with photos, and relevant technical data. To start the process I am sending out invitations to an existing roster of Newporter owner emails, as well as the people that I have been in contact with.
As our first FORUM I am providing photos and reporting on the postmortum analysis of the few pieces of my masts that I salvaged from the previous owner. I am sure that some of it will be of interest. If there is interest I will follow up with the construction of my new masts.And of course I am looking for advice and information from others - its a forum!!

[Dennis Gaffney]

Justine said:

Can people find this site by a web search?

You can find it with google under Sans Souci and Dennis Gaffney but its buried pretty deep. It won't come up in the first few pages. How are you doing? Are you living on the boat? Repairs going ok? Your story about riding out the hurricane is the best commercial for Newporters I have ever seen. Too bad Ackerman is not still in business. You could sell it to them.

[Justine]

Dennis Gaffney said:

Justine said:

Can people find this site by a web search?

You can find it with google under Sans Souci and Dennis Gaffney but its buried pretty deep. It won't come up in the first few pages. How are you doing? Are you living on the boat? Repairs going ok? Your story about riding out the hurricane is the best commercial for Newporters I have ever seen. Too bad Ackerman is not still in business. You could sell it to them.

Thank you. Was a heck of an experence :) We live about 140 miles north of her right now. Not to much work in the Galveston area right now with the storm and economy. We try to get down to her every chance we get. We also always bring something home to work on at night during the week.

As much snow as you have been getting I'm surprised you could even get to your boat. Hard winter for that area this year.