Greetings - My introduction....

[Andy R]

It has been just about 4 years since I started working on forum communities. I was just about to buy a 1961 Airstream Bambi and realized that the Airstream community needed a great place to call home on the internet, so I started www.AirstreamForums.com. We worked really hard to make the friendliest and most feature rich Airstream community and today it is still the leader. After about a year and a major change in my life (moving from Colorado to Texas) my hobby changed from Airstream trailers to online communities.

Through a strange twist of fate I ran across a forum site that was going to shut down in a few days unless someone wanted to take it over. I sent the owner a message and a week later I was managing a community on Royalty (www.TheRoyalForums.com). The same owner was really busy and did not have time to manage his other community so I ended up acquiring a site on fashion from him.

Since then I have started a few more communities and acquired a few other and worked really hard with the members at each to make sure they stay leaders in their respective niches. I was doing some research on sailing in Brazil and ran across this site and noticed it had not been upgraded in quite some time. I sent Gisle an email to see if he wanted to sell to a caring owner and here we are today (Christmas Day 2005). Thanks to Gisle for founding such a great community and helping make Cruiser Forums what it is today.

I truely believe that forum sites are online communities where people with similar hobbies/passions/interests gather together just like they would in real life. My goal is to enable the members to evolve the community to fit their needs, to find the leaders that are willing to volunteer to help the community by helping with the administrative decisions, moderation, etc...

I am really looking forward to meeting everyone around the community and working with you all to keep evolving CruiserForums (CF). I plan to start doing research around the site so that in a few years (god willing) I will be able to buy a sailboat and join you out on the water.

If you have any questions, please post them here and I will try to get them all answered ASAP.

Happy Holidays!

Andy R