No, not talking about evolution... more about de-evolution. If you encountered references to web pages here on the blog, but there was no link with it, my apologies. There was a software upgrade and I missed a config setting and the links weren't appearing.

Please try again and let me know if you don't find what you were looking for.

Thanks to Alex Dotsch from Started Sailing? for pointing it out!

Bryan was kind enough to point out that some (all?) of my external links weren't working. Sorry about that... fixed now, I believe. Please drop me a note if you find something wrong, or leave a comment.

Thanks Bryan!

Just a quick "Thanks!" to all the visitors that made July our heaviest traffic month ever, here at Craft A Craft. It's neat and very gratifying to see the traffic grow over the years, with all the builders and cruisers checking us out.

Please pass on the link to your friends if you think they would enjoy the site!

For my American readers, Happy July 4th!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday.

As you may have noticed, for some reason we've been getting a lot of strange, off topic comment spam here. I'm not really sure what their goal is, but it's annoying.

I've tried to modify the spam blocking service I use, but it has still been getting through, so I'm forced to go to anonymous posting approval.

If you are a registered user, you can still post after logging in. If you are posting anonymously (not logged in), it will not appear until I approve it.

Sorry about that...

Just a quick note to wish all the Father's out there a "Happy Father's Day". That's probably a U.S. only observance, but I think its a good one.

I know I've had some great father/son times with Dane working on the boat. He's learned a lot of useful skills, and is also learning about how some projects take a while :-)

From my own Dad, I learned most of what I know about woodworking and mechanical things. I'll never match his skills, but every little bit I managed to pick up holds me in good stead.

Thanks Dad!

Well, it's been another year. Craft A Craft is now three years old. Seems in some ways that it was just the other day that I started this. On the other hand, a lot of water has passed over the boat since then. The site has had over 3000 postings and coming up on 600 registered users (with many more regular visitors). read more »

Sorry about the quick turn time on this latest site change. I normally try not to change things (visually) quite so often, but that last experiment just really hadn't panned out.

The "all white" look wasn't very well received. So we won't go back quite to all black like we used to be, but maybe we can have a happy medium.

I do notice that this change has improved load times some... hope to keep that aspect if nothing else.

I'll try to keep things calm.

Thanks!
Bruce

In the past I've had some posts about KISS and keeping things simple. I have been striving for that on my V28 build and recently it has been getting more and more desirable in other areas of life.

Too much clutter and "stuff" can be a real drag, sometimes.

Anyway, as you have probably noticed, I revamped the web page again. A plainer, simpler look with hopefully less clutter. Dane doesn't like it, since it's not black, but I think it might be nice for a change. We'll see. read more »