

A Coming Silence in the Yard!
As I write this, the sun is shining bright, as bright as "he" can be, we're still a bit below freezing and there's a bite in the wind. Ice is forming along the shores and in the shallow bays and across the ponds, and the trees are bare. There's nearly silence in our shipyards and just a few jobs left to do: batteries and wirings to check, dust to clean up, tools to sort and prepare again for winter use, and models to put away. It's also time to think of new projects, time