Hello David,

Congratulations! Gosh don't ya love the comments and looks? The best one so far was pulling into crown bay with her on the roof. Crown bay is where the mega yachts park. There was a group of people on the rear SECOND story deck of their 150-foot yacht sipping mimosas. They all stopped and stared and pointed and said "nice boat!" They're in a $3 million yacht and they were telling ME "nice boat." Gotta love it!

So now you need to bring her down for a photo shoot. By the way, I assumed you meant you lived in Portland, OR, but now I guess you meant Portland, ME. There's too many of those Portlands. When you said you drove to Newfound's shop in a day, I thought, "Gee, the guy must be a speed demon," but then my logical side of my brain woke up. I wish I could go to Newfound's shop. When my minicell foam arrived it smelled of cedar dust. All my local friends were smelling it and commenting on how good it smelled. They don't have cedar down here.

Happy paddling,

Malcolm