Ditto
I received an email last night from a guy on our fleet's email that hasn't owned a boat in over a year (taking a hiatus raising kids and finishing school), just wanting to chat about sailing. We keep track of boats locally and across two divisions by word of mouth. The boat we currently race, was raced/owned by Dave Popp & Tami Sontag of Wisconsin. Dave developed arthritis and the boat sat in his garage for six years, plus, they had moved to Indiana during that time. Long story but, when Dave realized (succumbed) to the fact they would no longer race, his boat became available to us via this constant contact. The "network" supplied us multiple opportunities when the time was right for us to jump in. I'm glad no one scratched them from the list when they stopped racing,

Another point. Approximately 10% of the people on our email list actually race, 20% don't currently own boats. Thanks for reminding me of the snail mail newsletter Mary, I haven't sent one out since '06 <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Time to get out that purple print paper.