Elsewhere and Meanwhile
   Of course there were other things happening in the ‘shire while Tonii was away at school because although it was an idyllic place to live it was not without its problems. The main issue as it related to the islands and the loch was a brewing power struggle between the [...]

VW Hovercraft Bring Us One Step Closer to the Jetsons

Analysis by Emad Hanna

Zhang Yuan, a 21-year-old Chinese designer, has plans for a vehicle called the Volkswagen Aqua that can hover and thereby negotiate all kinds of terrain, including road, sand, ice, snow and water! The design for the invention has been shortlisted in the annual [...]

Too much news to print one at a time concerning the government ( Federal, State, and Local)  restricting access to public anchorages, selling off public anchorages, and wanting to rescind the second mortgage tax breaks on boats and yachts. The links are provided below:
 Tax break  http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/home/514997
Restricting access to anchorages: http://www.soundingspub.com/news/todays-top-stories/286406-dc-boaters-troubled-by-restricted-anchorage-proposal
Selling public anchorages: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jul/08/derelict-boats-a-matter-of-cash/
Waterfront homeowners upset with boats anchoring [...]

The WOB news team outdid themselves with this story that they passed along to Bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TBkg8jBfJA

                                               
                                                          Onward
 
   We fast forward 18 years and we find that Tonii and her father have grown their business and now have four boats in their fishing fleet. Tonii has an education that is reserved more for those families that could afford to send their children to the best academies within Lollashire and those select [...]