We started building a ferrocement boat with Ken and Dianne Adams in 1972, with romantic dreams of going cruising. Heather and I even lived in the boatyard at Span Farm for a while, and I got involved in a little monthly published by the NZ Ferro Cement Marine Association called at different times a Newsletter, a Bulletin and — finally and fanciest — the Journal. We never went cruising, but in round-about ways the Journal did end up taking us places. ~ Ian