i - <br><br>Well it is 1999, the beginning of my tenth year of being a melonhead. I remember my first sail in December 89. It was cold and I was wearing a wet...
ndy,<br>Your New Year's piece painted a perfect picture. My neck is still cold after reading it. Most impressive though, you posted it at 6:53 AM on New Year's...
've been having trouble posting messages into the club. I think I've lost 4 of them so I'll try again here. <br><br>Greetings from snowbound Indiana. We...
reetings from the snowdrifts, Geoff. I really like the name you've chosed for your new MS and think it really fits the boat. Very lyrical, definitely ...
ello to all! Andy, thanks for the link to this page on the "head" page. This looks like a great way to spread the word and get to know other like-minded ...
ello all Melonheads. About time I get with the program, and become part of this club. It looks like a really great idea, Andy, but it looks to me like ...
i Scot - Great to see your name on the member's list. We're in the middle of a _major_ blizzard here in Indiana - the whole town is shut down...it's not over...
ey Jerry - Happy New Year. Go easy on me...I've only put a few liesure hours over the holidays chatting away about Melonseeds (as usual). <br><br>Major snow...
ay all-tried to get into the chat Sunday but no luck. Yahoo indicated it was logging me in then I got a message that "the club requested does not exist" or ...
reg - I could not find an email address for you. Send me a note at: bfehrenb@.... Maybe we can get together. The water is a little 'stiff' right now (...
ell, after a couple of days of horsing around, I'm finally "in the club". Happy (belated)New Year to all). MS 161 "Scrimshaw" is tucked away for the winter ...
ello to all the Melonheads out there. My name is Ken, sailing "Pumpkin" out of Marina Del Rey in Southern California. Weather's in the 80's and breezy this ...
reetings and Welcome, Ken. You've brightened my day...hearing that PUMPKIN resides in a place that's breezy and 80s! (I just came in from shovelling...
i Dave,<br><br>Welcome and Happy New Year. I really enjoyed reading your comments about the l998 Summer Solstice Regatta and seeing pictures of SCRIMSHAW in...
ellow melonheads, <br><br>The following is a letter which I wrote to Roger<br>Crawford back in 1990, praising the boat etc. I also sent him a 2nd bogus version...
er first time in the water she pulled away into a gentle 8 knot breeze. I didn't expect her to perform that well in light air. On a reach, she behaves so...
his is the altered version of the letter... part one. <br><br>Dear Roger December, 1989<br> Beruit, Lebanon<br><br>Thank you for building my Melonseed Skiff so...
art II<br><br>So far, 1've been making a deliberate effort to get some exercise while out on the Melonesed. I put the boat in irons, release the sheet, kneel ...
daresay the second version would surely interest me in the Melonseed. If anything can continue onwards after the bow has fallen off, well, by golly, that's a...
ell, it was a beautiful day up in Nahariya, Israel yesterday: and there I was on the beach looking at a few Optimist prams (sprit rig!) and knowing that soon...
avid, <br><br>Hi those button ideas are prety neat. I imagine that the twine and varnish would look pretty nice when completed but be a bit of work if you had...
i Andy-<br><br>It was way back in April, 1992 when curiosity got the better of me and I ordered Roger Crawford's info packet and Melonseed video. During the...
i David-<br><br>I read with amusement your comments about your affliction and am happy to hear the one-and-only cure is about to be sent on her way! I can ...
en and DaveGlad to see you have hooked up on the newest Melonhead adventure in cyberland.I am not sure I have current e-mail addresses for both of you ( I get ...
reetings Andy and all-<br><br>Yes, that's right, as you can all plainly see, I've got a really big case of Melonhead and I'm honored that Andy chose to display...
ndy, thanks for setting the spelling straight on "hoosier". I hate to be picky, but we Indiana folks have such a strange, odd nickname it's bad enough when ...
oger,<br>Nice picture of you on the front page. Even if I wasn't told who it was, the hat was a dead give away!<br>Sorry to hear you're buried in white stuff...
