Thank you all for your supportive comments, they're much appreciated thank you. I must admit to not being as active as I have been in the past although I am working on a ship story right now which is nearing completion.
As it's the holiday season, I've been distracted to a degree as have many other people. I can say to people that this forum is going nowhere in the foreseeable future and I'm not the kind of person to simply take it offline and dump everyone's hard work (sometimes accumulated over years) because I can't be bothered to run it anymore, but won't let anyone else do it either.