[peterb]

Captkern,

I believe that I am a nice guy, as is Ken and Chuck.

I can only speak for myself when I say that I was just blowing off some steam. In my post I did say all kidding aside.

I know that you are not going to retire on the money that you make on those shirts.

Let me explain why I feel the need to blow off some steam.

This invaluable web site was started (and is still run) by a person who has funded this whole thing out of his own pocket. As far as I know, the only money he ever sees back on this site comes from the for sale adds, along with the profits (and they are small) on whatever merchandise we sell to our fellow members. Net/net, I am sure that he is in the red as far as running this web site. It is obvious that he keeps the site going because of the personal pleasure we all take in being members here.

For the past three years I have been the one making most of tee shirts and the like for the web site. Any penny I make on the merchandise gets donated to the web site.

Therefore, when I first saw your mechandise for sale on ebay I had mixed feelings. I do think that you have a very nice design. However, I could not understand how anyone could be selling something with the Classic SeaCraft name on it for a personal profit (however small) when we don't do that here.

That's just my opinion. End of story.

Peter