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Once when chatting with a machinist a young fellow who had work done earlier was there and the topic of exposing aggregate in concrete came up. During the conversation I replied "what the old timer's did....."and prefixed a procedure amongst other knowledge. When the younger fellow left the machinist said to me "........did you see the amazed look in that kids eyes, who are you kidding, you are the old timer.....". I never thought of it that way. James Thurber (I writer I enjoy reading) once wrote ".......I do not know when it happened in life, but when bumping shoulders with a fellow his comment changed from.........what's your problem to........are you all right sir.....". At some point hopefully some young "old soul" at Whaler might pick up the reins and pepper Chuck with questions, maybe too late. We need to rely on those who have done, and are willing to share. Finnegan and Weatherly (among a whole lot of other contributor's who I hope I did not offend by naming only two names) in the club continue to contribute. I own a 1977 23' Penn Yan tunnel drive and am fishing it commercially.....I am getting parts and advice from the last owner's son of boat the building company. He is in his very late 50's. His son has no interest, When TJ goes......??????? . The nature of things. To me boats made in the 70's will always look new to me. I was a young adult and looked at the hulls wistfully from the factory floor. I actually loved the 50's and 60's hulls then, derelicts I saw lovingly imagining them in their earlier state.