Sandy and Gina were two women ensconced somewhere in the Great White North building a steel sailboat from the ground up. Sandy ran a blog at Sandyscb.com where each day of work on the boat was chronicled. The last day I saw was Day 374. Every so often I’d go through to view their progress because it the whole project was just really effin’ cool. At the end I’d update my bookmark to hit the next day.

I got away from checking things out because of work or some other distraction but the last time I looked, the site was down. Not only that but the domain is now just a squat-vertisement site. Googling for information provides nothing and this kind of makes me sad.

I hope they’re bimbling around the Caribbean or Mediterranean and the carefree lifestyle distracted them from re-upping the domain or even posting updates. I fear that this isn’t the case. Perhaps there was a falling out or maybe the well ran dry. And for some reason this really concerns me in a way that some random detritus found on the Internet shouldn’t.

Do you know what happened?

Update of 2007-12-16

I do! Oh fortuitous luck.

I was bimbling through the referral stats for this site and noticed someone hit the site searching the exact phrase that titles this post. It piqued my curiosity so I headed off to the great search engine collective to see where I hit in the grand scheme of things. I saw a posting on some welding discussion board. Following links from there I eventually stumbled upon the new and improved site that Sandy maintains.

She’s maintained the site navigation so you can find any day starting at day one or jump back in it like I did at day 375. I found it easiest to break out of the flash-obscuring frame navigation and just get at the internal frame. The next / previous links get you most places and you can edit on days where there is a jump. Seriously, the damn flash navigation is completely orthogonal to a useful site. And it adds nothing aesthetically.

For the attention deficient: I rambled through all the stuff since I lost the site. They’re booming toward an April 2008 launch. The business is sold. The house is for sale. The project is just freakin’ incredible and the boat is beautiful. I’m not much for open water and will die happy having never sailed anything other than the seat of my pants but I can really appreciate the work and dedication and beautiful lines of the boat they’ve built from the ground up.