Tami:

What you claim about the YAHOO group is nothing short of an outright lie. Here is the text for all to see and to further support what you claim is false we have three other dealers who are members of that YAHOO e-mail list group (Multihull central)and we welcome EVERYONE regardless of whether or not they compete with our company.

Here is the greating at the top of the YAHOO GROUP:

>>Multihull Central is a no nonsense group for the catamaran or trimaran enthusiast. Lead by Mark Michaelsen from the Sailing Pro Shop with over 25 years of multihull experience this is the place to ask questions, share stories and get news on the wonderful world of multihull sailboats.

From beach catamarans like Hobie Cats, Prindle Cats, NACRAs, SOL CATS and more to the Farrier TRIs to the outrageous maxis sailing around the world like PLAYSTATION and TEAM ADVENTURE no other mailing list will give you more up to date and accurate information.


If you are new to the group please introduce yourself by letting us know where you are geographically (roughly if you are uncomfortable with specifics) and what you interests are primarily.


Welcome aboard.


Mark Michaelsen <<

Now Tami: please show me where dealers are not welcomed. EVERYONE is welcomed there.

Further to this Tami you claim that we will kick dealers off our FREE CLASSIFIED ADS bulletin boards, well there ya have me. I figure on our commercial site (http://www.sailingproshop.com)it is reasonable to ask dealers not to advertise but we do allow EVERYONE ELSE to advertise for FREE. Seems fair doesn't it?

As to getting a FREE RIDE here we paid rick and Mary for a year's worth of advertising here on the CATAMARAN SAILOR site this year to help support the program. Once our new store is opened up we'll spring for more ads here to help support CATAMARAN SAILOR.

Please be more careful when posting inaccurate and intentionally defamatory information in public.

Thank you in advance for your carefully thought out reply.

Mark Michaelsen.