I dropped a few lines on the Ships forum, but I'd better introduce myself formaly. I go by Rick, Hey you!, and many other less complementary terms. I spent 10 years paddling around in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club. I was a Quartermaster aboard 627 class SSBNs and 688 SSNs. Went around the world once, and met my wife at a little garden spot called Diego Garcia. Decided that going to sea in something that looked like a sewer pipe, designed to sink, and built by the lowest bidder wasn't for me. Now I'm a Civil War reenactor, and I drag a cannon around the field. Ships, subs, and the occaisonal "Thing That Goes Boom." That's what I like to build