Lost - I also hope you stick around. Variety is the spice of life! And, though I understand and can appreciate the intent of SD's comments, I've been using SailNet and other forums since '99 and I'm still not completely certain what constitutes hijacking a thread. I've seen dozens and dozens (and dozens!) of otherwise serious threads started on this forum as inquiries or comments, only to have the bulk of the responses be fun jabs and inside jokes between long time participants that have nothing to do with the original post. Is that a form of hijacking? If so, I don't mind all that much (as it is one way to get a better handle on some of the "personalities" here
). It can, however, be annoying to have to swim through a few pages of that to get back to the actual subject matter. Anyway, it's just my personal observation that sort of thing happens quite a bit here, and I just put up with it...