Done
Except check the area code on phone....612 is correct

I can't PM- I don't pay for that function here. Send me a note on our website contact page
https://tenoctaveaudio.com/wp/contact/ or use the email shown there and we can discuss it offline. ;^)

I am not a marketer for general public consumables. I don't have the automatics (CNC) to produce any longer. If you've an interest, I can provide good info toward your endeavor.

PM me for continuity

Do you want to market the isolation devices again?

http://stereotimes.com/acc052202.shtml

This is one link. We had award for best new tweak at 2005 IES in Vegas. Jeff approached me with the idea of lateral transient noise and hysteresis in 2000 or 2001. I still have the production drawings and tooling.
Where the Aurios footers created conflict in freedom of movement because of 3 bearing balls in each piece and a separator within the device (contact), I created 2 planes of free motion using 3 single bearing balls between 2 15" radiused pucks. We could see the difference in the VU metering it was so substantive. Never got to a point of refining the design application.

It was a fun project but Jeff underestimated costs of marketing. Can't fault him. Do miss him too.....early death.

If I don't have any left in some obscure box.....perhaps make you a set. Shouldn't take but a few hours.

I'm sure you'll prosper in your 'new' life, too. 👍
I rediscovered a hobby from my past and started a new business with a friend early this year. Have a look at our current product line:
http://www.tenoctaveaudio.com
Probably add a few smaller products in the coming weeks.

Bavaria 34!...not a cheap boat...what a shame.

Making a choice. My dad asked me decades ago if I were going to spend my time making a living or making a life. I've managed both well.....Life better!

I'm closing my business end of this year....small tooling / fixturing / repairables shop...and moving to Manitowoc WI. I'm already in the marina and out on home water. I've already been asked if some sort of manufacture / teaching in boats and sailing might entreat the youngsters in a community or club function. Manty has a long history in boat construction and there are human resources with lots of manufacturing skill sets.

This inflatable wing has given me a couple of ideas. This weekend is Sail and Share Regatta on the St Croix river between MN and
WI. Friends from my club started St Croix Sailing School 10 years ago. I'm going to show them the inflatable idea. I think they have 10 420's in the school....and I'm a pretty good manufacturer and seamstress!

So....a choice to take all the skills and pour them into a human / product integrated purpose. I learned my values concepts from home, Lao Tsu, Rand, and a few other sources. I learned more about living objectively, in practicum, through sailing, more so than any other activity

Nice! I was a lazy sailor on a reservoir lake in TX. At the time a family owned a piece of land that they were holding for future development in a cove on the lake. Mast up trailer storage was $12 a month. The SJ was about 10 yards from the water. Really spoiled me. Learned to love to sail as frequently as I could until I had to become a business road warrior.

I learned on Lake Michigan. 1930's and 40's boats with oiled canvas sails, hemp,sheets, bronze / hardwood blocks, I returned after a 20 year absence to fiberglass, aluminum, carbon fiber, synthetic sheets and lines. To retrain in 2005 I sailed in 103 races and had over 130 water days against my captains licensure.

You did not luck out. Sailing is about being prepared for the worst, that the best can be lived. Proof: Vessle is sound, all passenger accounted and all cargo / accoutrements in tact. This is why I raced so much. It is the best, safest reactionary training one can experience.

New boat owner on the St Croix river Hudson, WI. New Bavaria 34....in 2011 or thereabouts. Drove the damn thing right under the rail tressle swing bridge. A half dozen boaters and the bridge attendant were screaming to stop. He's alive. Stupid wasn't fixed.

Ouch!

I have an S2-7.9. Radial foot on the mast. Cantilever pole with Spin and Jib halyard on top loop and aux line from a block on the bow. Leave the shrouds attached. 1 person up or down in under 15 min....with a bit of caution. I can launch or recover from or for trailing in under 2 hours by myself.

Long Island Sound, (CT/NY/RI) is usually 60/70F in summer...35/40 most of spring/fall...not good to drink! not laughing.

I've been out in 50knot winds, first time on purpose to see what it was like and how to handle our heavy 37' hunter...shortened the main and never leaned more that 25 degrees...second time, got caught in a freak storm, (an hour before marine band said clear sailing) it crept up fast but we were prepared and experienced, after entering the sound, we caught a fast easterly... downwind to home.

In short, we lucked out.

Oh...Son! You are so fortunate.
In 2010 I was sailing Great Abaco. We got down there right after the Newport / BVI cruise / race passed. A couple, short-handing, got fatigued and decided to make a cut into the East side of the island just south of Hope Town harbor. Sea level nominal was 8 feet in the cut and they were in 8+ seas on the inbound. They hit bottom full force. Life raft got deployed and a large wave separated the couple.....she was never found...no evidence. As I understand these folks were seasoned sailors....one simple mistake or overlooked item or an assumption....

Stanza from a song I embrace:
Put me on my belly on the water
Let it kiss me like a water bug
half of me above
half of me under
Where the air and water are in love
And the two would fly away together if they were released from gravity......

Racing a Santa Cruz 40 on leg 2 of the Superior Triangle 2006. This is a Trans-Pac designed racer. Incredibly stable on all points of sail. Race was postponed 3 hours because 40 to 45 knot wind....when peak sustained dropped to 30 we started. Due East wind racing from Houghton MI to Bayfield WI. By midnight, under near full moon we were in 7-8 foot seas. We started hooking Redhawk up onto the following seas and surfed a bit. Regularly above 13,5 hull speed. We did manage a sustained 15,2 for more than 2 minutes. Wish we'd had a GPS capture to show SOG on that one. Must understand this is a light vessle at 10,500 displacement and a tiller boat....lots of fun! When we rounded up. doing around 14 knots, we rolled the owner out of his bunk onto the engine bay divider. "Ok you kids, settle down up there" was all we heard.
As far as safety concerns; I'd rather be in a storm on open ocean than the Great Lakes. They are beautiful; when placid and pernicious bitches when riled. Short hard wave form and really cold water up until July on all but Superior. That beauty runs in the lower 40's sub-surface in Aug.....consolation.....the best drinking....water...water...yeah....

I’m not much of a sailor, but technically, this is excellent. Much better shape than a cloth sail. The ribs are excellent for keeping flow laminar and attached.

What boat did you have at that time...3 ft above the rail of the carlinda would have been a small tsunami!

I realize the great lakes can be just as foreboding as the ocean.

"Trailered with the mast down "
As I did with my San Juan long ago. Good times (except for stepping the mast, that is.;^)

Yes, that would be a big plus going up the Connecticut river, other rivers as well...nothing worse than taking your mast down. Our first boat was an old McGregor. Trailered with the mast down obviously.

Excellent for reefing, but the mast is still up. The telescoping mast should make it easy to get under bridges as needed doing the eastern US loop. It did look a bit sloppy to me, too.

I saw recently where they dug up a many-thousands-of-years-old ship off the Red Sea, which still had rigging intact. They used the same Sheet Bends, Clove Hitches, Square Knots and Figure-Eight-knots we use now, because it's convergent technology that works. Same stuff that's on my sloop. I'll stick with ten thousand year old technology when I'm out on the water, thanks.

It was, I'll never forget it...it's a tough thing to do and getting the boat leveled on the wave is difficult...this was my first time and it just happened...no intention on my part.
But I'll take credit for keepin it there until we hit the shallows, (went from 360' depth to 20' within a 1/2 mile in Plumb Gut, Long Island Sound.)....it was a nice easy landing (so to speak)
That boat was part of me or me a part of it, I don't know which.

On my Hunter 37 it was easy...it just lapped side to side, nice and neat.

I thought the air wing sail looked ugly and a mess when it was fully collapsed...perhaps it's better once properly stowed.

Thanks for your experienced views, Commander. 👍

And the bow wake was at least 3 feet above the rail! And the hull thrummed!
And then, in my experience, we rounded up. I was on the low side....sitting.....grinding an asym spinny for the trimmer and keeping the main preventer under watch. 3 foot wall of water doused me and went right up my foulies.

That was my first Lake Superior enema