Frank Hagan

Thanks, Jeff. Do the RV thing if possible. While my traveling days are probably behind me, I did enjoy a burst in what I call the "go go" years of retirement. We're probably sliding into the "slow go" years but not yet to the "no go" years (those are the three phases of retirement I've read about).

Thanks, Jonathan. I continue to do better day by day, so I'm really lucky.

Thanks! The last lingering effects I can manage OK.

On April 3rd, 2025 while visiting my daughter in Wichita, KS, I suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (brain bleed). I spent 5 days in the ICU and then an additional 10 days in a rehab hospital. I was cleared to fly home on Apr. 22 and have been recovering at home since then. I've been retired for 3 years so I didn't have work to contend with. Physically, I've regained all my regular functions, I can walk, do all my regular personal things like dressing myself, etc. I still have some "mental fog" (like a bad hangover) and some tremendous headaches. Speech is OK, but the left side of my face is numb, like when you have dental work. The doc gave me some stronger stuff for the headaches, but so far Tylenol works fine. I don't seem to have any memory deficits, but can get overwhelmed with complex decision making. And my ability to talk on the phone has crashed; it's very hard for me to follow conversations on the phone. I also have a ton of fatigue that sets in with any activity which they tell me is common and should improve over time. In the ICU I had to remember to not joke around. They ask you stupid questions to test your mental acuity. What year is it, what city I am in, who is President, etc. I took these very seriously and ultra-literally, because if you screw it up you never get out of there. One day the nurse showed me drawings of several common household things and pointed to a chair. Nurse: "Can you identify this?" Me: "Yes." Nurse, after a short pause: "Well what is it?" Me: "Its a drawing." (I'm thinking this is a trick question testing my ability to tell drawings from real items or something) Nurse: "What is a drawing of?" Me: "A chair." I successfully identified drawings of plants, light bulbs and a cat on that page. Transferring to the rehab hospital, I ran into another mental acuity test that I failed with my mega-literal brain: Doctor: "Can you count down from 20 to zero by threes?" Me: "No, you cannot" Doctor: "Well, try anyway." Me: "No. It's impossible. 20 isn't divisible by 3, so you would go 20, 17, 14, 11, 8, 5, 2 and then skip right over zero to -1. It is impossible". Doctor, quietly: "OK, you can do it." Me, quietly: "It's still impossible." So other than being stupidly-literal, which my wife assures me predates the stroke, I'm doing well. Fatigue and headaches seem to be my "parting gifts" from the stoke. I share this just to explain my absence here for the last few weeks. I'm able now to log in and use the computer as I did before.

EDIT: I did find a setting for hiding your own posts for the Members group; I have disabled that setting. Can you check and see if you are able to post now without it automatically being hidden?

Sorry! That's my fault; I remember you told me about the issue but I didn't dig into it right away, and it slipped my mind.

It should be fixed now. You may have to refresh the page for the ads to disappear. If that doesn't work try logging out and back in again.

I'm sorry, Jonathan! I must have missed the renewal payment. I'll try to fix it tonight (I'm out of town and in my phone).

For any Stevenson Project builders, I will be letting the byyb.org domain name expire on Dec. 18, 2024, and the website will go dark. There isn't much activity there any longer, and the organization itself is defunct. The photo albums were lost with a server crash several years ago. The website is basically two pages (a main page and the BYYB Constitution) and a link to the forums hosted at TapaTalk. If any of you builders want the site to keep it up, please let me know.

No problem! Thanks for the post. It's a fine looking CS17! The software used to try and post the contents of Word docs, but doesn't any more. Instead, the software put it as a downloadable file, but depending on people's browser and computer, it will either open in a Word window (if they have Word and have enabled opening the files) or save it to your downloads folder. But it doesn't prompt you to download it, so people miss that it DID download! You can also copy/paste from Word into the editor when posting, but the images sometimes have to be added manually.

I put the content in the first post. @Samantha Ritchie - if that's not OK just let me know and I'll remove the extra content.

Sorry about that. The database is having issues with some character sets and I'm working on resolving it.

It looks like the move was successful, and we are back up. I still need to do some server configuration so there may be some minor hiccups over the next few days.

We are once again moving servers to one with more memory and (anticipated) better response times. I expect this to take place this evening, July 21, 2024 and hope there isn't more than just a few hours of downtime.

With flying colors! Or, the site corrected itself anyway.

It's an annual thing. I send out an email with a link about a month before it's time to renew. You can see two dates in your profile, "Supporting member since" and "supporting member until". Yours doesn't come up for renewal until September. I do it that way because many people are very active while building their boat, but not so much after they finish, so they may only want to support and use the site for a year or two.

There was a bug fix update just before I saw your message so I think this time (at least this time) a bug fix rolled out before I knew there was a bug!

Now back to my profile. Testing this response.

According to his webmaster, Keith, Tom is no longer selling plans. This is from his email to me this past May.

Thanks! You should get a confirmation email soon.

Hi Captain Tim - you can donate for another year at this link. Thanks!

Thanks for that! It can be challenging at times. I'm hoping this one goes quickly when the transfer happens. There's a bit of work after that because the IP address will change when we move, but hopefully it won't be a long drawn out process.

A fire in the data center is requiring our server to be moved. There may be some downtime over the next 24 hours while this is done, but the data center host assures me that we won't run into the problems we had last June. I apologize for the inconvenience!

Do you have a YouTube channel with your sailing adventures? My wife and I watch several of the sailing channels, and I'd love to see the Spindrift in action for cruisers.

As you can see we lost a couple of messages here with the botched move to a new server. I apologize for that. The hosting company was not able to migrate the mailboxes on our customer's sites so I had to revert to the old server. Evidently "complete migration" doesn't include your email addresses or inboxes.