[Public-List] New Alberg owner and member of the association

[Tim Peek via Public-List]

Gordon, thank you and I still very much plan on continuing to crew with the lingin for as long as they have me!

Tim Peek

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 12:04, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
> Welcome aboard Tim!
> 
> I chuckled at your description of crewing aboard LinGin...  I pretend to be
> irritated with crew members who graduate to owning their own boats.  I've
> been known to say things like 'lost another one after all that work training
> him/her up' etc.
> 
> But of course I'm very pleased when people decide they like sailing, and
> yacht racing in particular, enough to take the plunge and buy their own
> boats.  It's the healthiest thing that could happen to our fleet and sailing
> in general.
> 
> Cheers - 
> 
> Gord #426 Surprise
> 
> 
> On 2016-01-04, 11:43 AM, "Timothy Peek via Public-List"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning,
> 
> I wanted to introduce myself to the association. My name is Tim
>> Peek, I live in Pasadena, Md and have been in the area for eight years now.
>> Moving out here I was fortunate enough to become involved in the Wednesday
>> night races, crewing on the LinGin. I have been regularly doing so for the
>> last six years now. I think its been six years, the seasons go quickly.
> 
> By
>> way of a newspaper ad Tim Williams showed me, I came across Rob Alley, the
>> owner of Never More #219. After speaking with Mr. Alley, to my delight, we
>> worked something out where I am now the new owner of an Alberg 30, and now a
>> member of the Chesapeake Bay Alberg 30 Association.
> 
> I have met many of the
>> avid racers belonging to the club and look forward to meeting others. This is
>> a huge project for me. I am new to sailing, as I do not really consider being
>> a jib trimmer for six years as all encompassing sailing experience, but it
>> counts for something. This is the first boat I have ever owned and it will
>> require a lot of work as well as educating myself on a lot of new
>> skills.
> 
> Publicly, in the group, I sincerely want to thank Tim Williams for
>> the opportunity of crewing on his boat which has been instrumental in
>> preparing me for this now. As he knows, this has been a long time dream of
>> mine. And I might add something that has unprecedentedly come to fruition
>> years before I ever thought it would. I also want to thank all those I have
>> sailed with on the LinGin, namely Glen Becker whose racing strategies and
>> knowledge, as well as Tim¹s, has been something I astoundly admire, if not it
>> being out right sorcery! I also want to thank Mike Lehman whose advice and
>> encouragement was pivotal in me taking this on. And a big thank you to Brian
>> Palmer who has already provided lengthy emails of help to me.
> 
> I am hoping,
>> and certainly reasonably, to have the boat in the water by April and ready to
>> do some cruising by May or June.  I plan on relocating boat this summer
>> somewhere in Anne Arundel County, no ideas where yet. I sincerely thank Mr.
>> Alley and his wife Harriet for this opportunity and his continual interest and
>> help in my work with it. I look forward to having you two aboard in the near
>> future! And I look forward to meeting the rest of you out on the bay.
> 
> Timothy Peek
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