Hey Steve!

Yeah, it's me. I've been monitoring this board for a month or so and am glad to see that you & Terry are still keeping the Navies afloat.

As for the Brownwater site; some economic misfortunes caused me to have to cut down expenses and the domain and hosting fees were an unnecessary expense. However, I've pretty much gotten my "hull patched" and will probably relaunch the site in the near future. I'm glad to hear that you considered the site useful.

I still have the copies of the Benton & Essex deck logs you sent me and was considering transcribing them myself but it lsounds like you beat me to the punch. If I put the site online again, I'd be more than happy to include your work.

How's the Ft. DeRussy project doing?

Thanx also to Jim Martin for the link. I wasn't aware that the archived site was available.

Gary