A very enjoyable evening and for me the first chance to attach faces and 3-d personalities to blue clicky names.

Elise, I did bring a camera! However, the feeling I had was tha it would have been out of place to take photos. THe atmosphere was right for it so I didn't. I was afraid I would help turn it towards being a more self-conscious affair than it was. I liked it the wa it was and will do my best to be at the next one.

Perhps we could take a Mudcat documentation photo - one group picture of the Mudcatters in attendance.

No wonder this sing has lasted for twenty years, it is a little gem of an evening. You spend it on board a ship that rocks slowly in the wakes of passing freighters. The audience and the performers are one. People sit on the bare wooden planks and ribs in the hold of this 105 year old ship that sailed the West Coast for generations. She has made a number of voyages to Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands, too, and even one to Australia. We have the opportunity to go aboard and sing songs, many of which were sung in the forecastle of this ship and on her decks by hundreds of men, the last of the wind-sailors.

A contented Sourdough