I'm not quite sure I follow you. What's to be so secret about? Did the other builder ask you not to mention his work?

Shawn

: A local builder finished up my wife's strip kayak a couple weeks ago. I
: thought it was beautiful. Because we were going on vacation, the builder
: asked me to stop at a beach that was only a couple hours out of our way.

: I show up at the beach one morning with my wife and the kayak. On the beach
: there is an older fellow siting in a chair next to an old beat up strip
: kayak. I walk over to talk with him. Before I can say a word he catches
: sight of my wife's kayak.

: He starts telling me about my wife's kayak. Things he should not know and can
: not possibley see.

: He invites me, my wife, and the kayak to lunch. We drove a few miles to a
: small building where he is building boats this summer with an apprentice.
: (He tells me my local builder was his apprentice once, also.)

: They makes us a nice lunch, and show us their work, and then they haul the
: wife's kayak into the shop to look at it while we look at their kayaks and
: their shop.

: I am sure that different people are attracted to different styles of art, but
: you guys are sure missing something.

: I thought my wife's kayak was beautiful, but the boats I saw there were
: something else.

: Since no one else mentions this builder's name, I will not.