Mel, no, that wasn't me. I ate lunch alone in the Galley and dinner close to home in RI. However, next time I see you I will introduce myself now that I know your name or even if I forget it. (I'm pretty shy and a lot older.) Do you plan to go to Chantey Blast? I do but almost didn't last year because of bad weather. And I'll be back at Mystic before then. I don't know how often you go there, but maybe we will cross paths. I was pretty sure your partner was named Nicole but didn't know her last name.

KathyW and Charley Noble, I look forward to seeing anything you put online.

Pam and Sue, how about Geoff Kauffman singing about the last Great Whale at the Whales and Whaling workshop? I saw you there. That and people putting arms around each other and swaying to Geoff Kauffman leading the closing song Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her brought tears to my eyes. During that last song I was standing next to one of Mystic's craft demonstrators. Coincidentally, he had sat next to me at January's Chantey Blast. His voice is almost as deep as Don Sineti's, and since some vocal cord damage I often sing in a deep voice, too. I can't carry a tune, but standing next to him probably helped! Also, you might want to check out Chris and Meredith Thompson, singer/songwriter identical twins who grew up in Providence and started performing as teenagers at open mics at Stone Soup, so I've watched them grow up and have always been able to tell the apart by their facial bone structure. In fact, I did not think they were identical until they said so! They also said that their parents would never tell them who was born first, but eventually they got their birth certificates. On that, my guess was wrong. Most of their songs are not about the sea, but I think they are wonderful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPkvoY7MJA Both are parents of young children, making performance dates hard, but here's their website. http://www.cmthompson.com/There are more videos of them on YouTube as well as videos of them with Pete and Maura Kennedy in a quartet called The Strangelings.