Vacation !

[mikeyr]

So I am taking a vacation...the kind of vacation I like to take once in a while. Wife and I are going camping and the kind of camping we like is...if we have a cell phone signal that means we are too close to civilization. That means next week this forum is on auto-pilot. New registrations will have to wait until I return to be approved. And if you people don't play nice, well never mind, you have always played nice.

Have fun ! I know I will, truck is pretty much ready to go, just have to do some work on the front winch tomorrow and off we go. Hopefully we won't get stuck some 20-30 miles off road and I will be back on Saturday to see what you guys have been up to. I want to see lots of new pics of Singer work and I will be starting on my LM when I get back so I will post pics.

[mikeyr]

well I am home and I see you all did nothing !!! not a single post while I was gone, you know the forum was still working right ?

[Peter McKercher]

Sounds more like you've been seeding the forum with your own bogus user IDs. Admit it Mike.

[mikeyr]

Don't need to do that, we have so many bogus ID's already. probably close to half the registered users have never posted anything. I only had one new user while I was gone...well, actually had more but only one that I can say is not a spammer so I only activated one.

Good thing I took plenty of meat with me camping, didn't catch a single fish in 3 days of fishing. I did get a wonderful email during the week that I didn't see until I got back to civilization...the Le Mans body was picked up from the builder.

[Peter McKercher]

Good news. Do you have an ETA. Probably about two months.

[mikeyr]

actually ETA is 4-6 months due to Covid messing up the shipping times. Right now the wait list for a boat anchored offshore at Los Angeles harbor or San Pedro harbor is 6 weeks for it to come into port and unload and its about the same to get something on a boat. So that is 3 months right there just to get on and off a boat.

Air shipping is 3-5 days plus a few days for customs. The shipping by sea quote a little more than doubled from last October when I got an estimate, so its gone up a lot in 6 months. Air shipping only went up a little bit but not much, so for a $1,300 US dollar difference you will never guess what I chose in the original quote there was a $4,000 difference between air and sea but sea is much higher right now.

Right now the body is still in the UK at the shippers waiting for a crate to be built, hopefully this week.