I know it's hard to believe for all concerned, but Sailing Anarchy has just turned one-year old. Wow. I'm not sure I really thought about it when I started this site with Webbdawg and the long-since departed Paul, but it has been amazing to see what the site has become.

Of course you know that the concept, as originated by me, was to create a place like no other - one that was a vehicle for the "other voice". A virtual soapbox, if you will. I also had a gut feeling that there were a lot of you out there who felt if not alienated, then certainly agitated about certain aspects of the sport. Based on the activity in the forum, I may have underestimated how much that is true.

Clearly, there was no place... like that on the web. Either you would be rejected by an egotistical dictator at Scuttlebutt, or be unnecessarily censored and policed everywhere else. It was obvious to me that Sailing Anarchy needed to be created. And so we did it.

I also wanted to provide the sort of information, be it interviews, editorials, rumors, or technical discussions that you don't get elsewhere. When Paul decided to quit, we did lose the technical analysis aspect of the site, but that void is being in filled in a number of ways, most notably in the forum.

Of course we're not all things to everyone, and we don't want to be. But Sailing Anarchy is, if I do say so, at least as good as anything else out there. We're continually improving all aspects as much as we can, we've got some great advertising partners (and hope to get a few more), but most of all we've got some great (and okay, and some not so great) fans of the site, and in that I am completely jacked.

So to those of you who quit on me, to those of you who have expressed your dislike of what we do, to those of you who don't like me or Sailing Anarchy, I say this: Kiss my Ass.

It's been one great year, Webbdawg and I lan on at least a few more. We're the noise you can't ignore.