This is the foremat that I prefer. It is much more convenient than having everything stuffed away in little cubby-holes. My two favorite forums are organized this way and I hardly bother going to the forums that have the little cubby-holes.
Thank you Nick, for the great service to the kayak building community and thank you to the contributors for all the wisdom and wit that is posted here. Sometines I say "Wow, that is great, I'll have to try that". Other times I just fall off my chair laughing.

Donovan

: I guess it is a matter of perspective. I find that by segregating the topics
: into different folders that some topics don't get used as much, so people
: don't read them, so when someone wants their post seen they put it in the
: most trafficked topic, even if it is not appropriate. To me this is worse
: than just mixing the topics together in the first place.

: And as I mentioned in my other post, I want people to talk about what they
: want to talk about and not feel constrained to keep a thread that starts
: on strip-building to stay rigidly in that topic. If the thread wanders
: into skin on frame territory, that is good because that is what the people
: conversing wanted to talk about. By changing the subject line they can
: make it possible to track the discussion.

: I know this may be bothersome to people who like things orderly, but I have
: not been blessed with the ability to keep things orderly anyway so it
: feels natural to me.