Our 5,000th Member

[Administrator]

We just added our 5,000th member, "shawnb." The number had previously climbed above 5,000, but that was before we did our daily purge of bad guys from the Ukraine, India, etc, which dropped the true total back below 5,000.

edit: Just noticed. This was co-incident with our 64,000th post.

Bill

[Dave Neptune]

Wow

Wow! You guys rock!

Congratulations MMI

Dave Neptune

[sastanley]

I wonder if the new Shawn will blab on the forum as much as this old Shawn does..

[hanleyclifford]

What?

You mean we had "bad guys" here? Just bring 'em up here on deck, Cap'n, and we'll have a little keel party.

[StephenGwyn]

5000? How many Atomic 4s were manufactured? I've heard 40000 built with 20000 still running. Does this mean 25% of the current owners are on this forum. Cool!

Stephen,
Alberg 30.

[dvd]

If there are 20,000 A-4s out there still runnning sooner or later all of them will end up here. I am still amazed at how many there are just at our small club and how many of those didn't even know about Moyer. Just like everyone else I am always passing on the Moyer connection to the poor uninformed A-4 owners wherever they may be.

Congrats. Don't know what I would do without such a great resource.

DVD

[Hymodyne]

Mazel tov!

[PT26]

Very cool
Congrats to you guys, and thanks for being here for us!

[Kelly]

Yep Shawn...with a little work you could reach nearly 10% of all posts. Go for it!

[sastanley]

10%!!

I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing..only ~2,000 to go until I catch up! I'll reserve my new water tank plumbing and epoxy work on the boat today for another post since they are not A-4 related. \

However, I will comment that the JB Weld-ing of the aft manifold stud appears to have gone swimmingly! Once I have the manifold's mating surface prepped I might re-install soon..but I've also noticed that I have a great opportunity to do some block painting with the great access I currently have to the port side of the engine.

[lat 64]

Sometimes I just log on to see what the heck Shawn is up to.

[Dave Neptune]

Fun fun fun

Sometimes I look to see if he (Shawn) is blaiming anything else on me. That was a good thread and I got to be the heel.

An awesome site to say the least!

Dave Neptune

[sastanley]

Dave..it is still your fault..but so far I like the prop.

We'll see how things go when I pull her for paint and bottom maintenance this spring....if it ever warms up here in Maryland!!

One of the things I did this weekend was think about you and that whole thread when I (hopefully) secured the engine mount lag screws in epoxy to keep everything aligned. Today we had some snow, so it might take days for it to cure.

[edwardc]

....if it ever warms up here in Maryland!!

Don't hold your breath!
Just a little bit North of you, and I cleared 3" of snow off of my car this morning!!

[Mo]

Edward,

Snow storm heading across the US supposed to head out to sea South of Nova Scotia...still waiting for some decent weather as well. This time last year I had the boat ready to go in the water and launched on March 30th. I have nothing done on the boat so far this year.

When I put the boat away last fall I commented that..."no major projects" ...I have however, made a to do list that will take a week of "nice warm weather".

If I can get this done I'm in good shape for another couple thousand miles.

-change impeller
-anode
-check and lube through hulls.
-install carb and run engine
-change oil and check engine for leaks, water, exhaust and fuel.
-cetol woodwork
-sand and varnish portions of interior near galley.
-sand topsides with 800 grit and polyglow topsides
-sand and paint bottom
-grease winches, repair self tailers winches. Lou, machinist friend, will take out sheared bolts
-jib to be looked over by Brad at Doyle…repair / stitch as required.
-stuffing box…6 yrs on old stuff…replace