Thanks, Skip. My upper back is a little sore this morning, as in about what I'd expect a day or two after competing at a Highland Games, or having a multi-lift one-rep-max session in the gym. We are going camping next week and when we get back the "new truck" search will begin.
I'm enjoying your tale of the Hobie mast. There are Victorian estates for sale for what we would consider to be preposterous prices, all over Scotland. I've eyeballed a few, but they often need a hundred thousand or more dollars of renovation to be really livable. Also, the Victorians liked to build houses with lots of little rooms and hallways, which is a very different notion of house construction than we are used to, today.
Here's an example.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...-60220732.html
Victorian mansion for about $600K...within easy driving distance of Inverness and the harbor, or keep your boat at the harbor at Nairn. Go up the hills the other way, and half an hour later, you're sipping whisky at any of the world-renowned distilleries on the Speyside.
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"