Fundraising 2025–2026: Now Open

Sean Engle

Your Friendly Administrator
Administrator
Founder
Greetings!

Well, it appears that we have made it through 2025, which is a good thing, as this has been quite the year…. Some of you have known that we’ve been facing a couple of technical challenges recently, the most recent of which was a dead mouse in my study, in the floor, immediately below my desk…. Consequently, my system has been torn apart for the last two months and as of this hour is just now being put back together… hence my late start on fundraising…. But, the office is going back together this week, thank goodness!

There have been other numerous challenges in 2025 as well, many of which you are all well aware of, and we hope that all of you are healthy and happy and are doing well. Other than these things, we are all still here, and that is the best of all news…

As you know every year, we come to our membership and undertake a fund drive to help pay for the sites hosting expenses and software, etc. This site is not paid for by advertising or membership fees, however, with an annual donations from folks like you, we have managed to cover it for 21+ years now and we are hopeful that this year that will continue…

If you would like to donate, information on how to do so it’s contained to the donation page the link to which is provided below. If you decide to use a check rather than a credit card, please do include your name, username, or email address so we can send you a thank you note as often we receive checks that we’re not sure who they’re attached to…

Again, we hope that everyone reading this is happy and healthy and doing well… In the end, that’s all any of us can ask, and I know that my friendships and other relationships that have been developed through the Ericsson community over the past 20+ years have certainly gone a long way in our lives, and we look forward to that continuing as well…

We wish you a both Happy Holidays and a happy, productive, and healthy upcoming sailing season in 2026!

Best Wishes,
//sse

ps: if you received an email from me, you would see the following tagline… And I think given I’m doing all this from my phone the same applies here… So apologies for any errors you might see in this post!

>> Sent from the tiny screen of my phone; please excuse any errors or omissions.
 
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Barbixy

Member II
Greetings!

Well, it appears that we have made it through 2025, which is a good thing, as this has been quite the year…. Some of you have known that we’ve been facing a couple of technical challenges recently, the most recent of which was a dead mouse in my study, in the floor, immediately below my desk…. Consequently, my system has been torn apart for the last two months and as of this hour is just now being put back together… hence my late start on fundraising…. But, the office is going back together this week, thank goodness!

There have been other numerous challenges in 2025 as well, many of which you are all well aware of, and we hope that all of you are healthy and happy and are doing well. Other than these things, we are all still here, and that is the best of all news…

As you know every year, we come to our membership and undertake a fund drive to help pay for the sites hosting expenses and software, etc. This site is not paid for by advertising or membership fees, however, with an annual donations from folks like you, we have managed to cover it for 21+ years now and we are hopeful that this year that will continue…

If you would like to donate, information on how to do so it’s contained to the donation page the link to which is provided below. If you decide to use a check rather than a credit card, please do include your name, username, or email address so we can send you a thank you note as often we receive checks that we’re not sure who they’re attached to…

Again, we hope that everyone reading this is happy and healthy and doing well… In the end, that’s all any of us can ask, and I know that my friendships and other relationships that have been developed through the Ericsson community over the past 20+ years have certainly gone a long way in our lives, and we look forward to that continuing as well…

We wish you a both Happy Holidays and a happy, productive, and healthy upcoming sailing season in 2026!

Best Wishes,
//sse

ps: if you received an email from me, you would see the following tagline… And I think given I’m doing all this from my phone the same applies here… So apologies for any errors you might see in this post!

>> Sent from the tiny screen of my phone; please excuse any errors or omissions.
This site is an invaluable resource for finding a boat, fixing everything in the boat, being part of a nice community, and getting realistic feedback (or what is that fool doing now?) lol Thank you (and I donated.)
 
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