Ahoy mates,
This will be my last post at MSW for a while, my friends, due to overwhelming real life issues, I must resign my staff position...it's time to hand over the helm.

I want to thank all of our membership and staff for a great ride, thank you all for your enthusiasm, contributions, and participation in making MSW the best ship modeling site, and a wonderful, comfortable hangout....I've truly enjoyed the experience, and will always hold the memory near and dear.

Keep the fires burning, and the passion for this wonderful hobby strong!

So long mates,
Mark

I'll miss you good luck and god speed Kelly

Good luck my friend, hope you will find time to build a little so that you doesn't loose contact entirely.

Thanks for a job well done!

Cheers/Jan

Thank you for your hard work in maintaining a great forum like this.

Thanks for what you've done here. I'll miss your presence and encouragement.

Fair Winds and Following Seas!

Hi Mark,

Sorry to see you stepping down, I hope everything sorts itself out and you will still be able to continue to contribute.

All the best and good luck for the future, thanks for all the help an encouragement.

Al

Good luck Gunny, I hope that everything works out the way you wish it to.....

Farewell my good friend. I hope for the best for you in the future and my prayers are with you. Keep in touch.

Kenny

Mark,

What a long road we've traveled together, from the pre-split Armorama days, to manning the new, post-split Kitmaker genre specific sites. Thanks for all your time and dedication, my friend.

I wish you all the best with your real life stuff. Hang tough, buddy, if you need an ear to bend, you've got my email addie.

Cheers

Rudi

Mark,
You have done such a great job at the helm of MSW for the past few years. It's hard to imagine what the site would have been like without your guiding hand. You have also assembled a great team during that time and though some of them have also gotten caught up in real life priorities lately the site is still doing great and had its BEST traffic month in December. In December of 2007 (which I think was close to when Mark took over as Managing Editor), we had about 10,000 unique visitors per month. Last month we had over 38,000 unique visitors for Model Shipwrights.

Good luck Mark and we hope to see you around in future.

Sincerely,
Jim

Ahoy Mark,

God speed

Gary

Good luck and Godspeed Mark.Hope everything works out the best way you want. Thoughts of you in prayer.
Aloha,Rick

Ahoy Mark,

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, that everything turns out as you desire.

You have been a great member and staff person to work with and I will miss the enthusiasm you have always shown. Hope to sea you back outta port with a bone in your teeth soon!

Sincerely,

Fred

I wish you all the best and hope everything will turn out the best way possible!

Cheers!
Stefan

Mark,

I echo all the above statements. I remember coming here the first time and you made me feel like I belonged here, I did not feel this on other boards. Soo, I was doing reviews, then on staff.

You are a great man and it will be hard to replace you, but we will survive.

May you have fair winds and following seas my friend. I hope someday the currents bring you back our way.

Good luck Mark I hope every thing works out for you

Mark I wish you All the Best for the future and thank you hole heartedly for all the great work you have done here at MSW and thanks for all the help over the last couple of years you will be missed but never forgotten hope to see you back soon
Keith

Hi Mark

I can only say that I understand perfectly what you are feeling right now...
We have to be reasonable enough not to be selfish regarding "position", for how important that is for our own ego, against the "institution health", in this particular case, Modelshipwrights.
I wish all the best for you and your life, I wish that you can find some hours during the week to go and relax in front of the workbench, and actually build a model (it has been a long time not doing it, right??).

You have done an excellent job as ME - the team will miss you and will remember your work, your enthusiasm and good will.

I am sure that the tradition of a good ME will carry on on MSW.

Stay in touch, even if it is just an email saying I am alive and well

Salute

Cheers
Rui

Mark I am a newcomer to this network and based on the posts I have read here I wish I had more of an opportunity to interact with you. Wish you the best of luck and hope that you will drop by from time to time

Best of luck, Mark. Your patience in receiving and reworking my submissions was a tremendous benefit to me. I hope you can return when things get sorted.

To paraphrase Edward Preble, you were "an ornament to your profession".

--Karl

That's a very sad news Mark. I hope that what once I wrote you about "keeping you busy" have not had an impact in this decision. I know how you feel and wish you will manage your RL issues succesfully and come back soon!

Sincerely,

Augusto

Mark you've been a great leader on this site and always encouraging, I hope life sorts it self out and leaves you and yours in good health. God speed.

I haven't been around much so this is the first I've seen this.

Mark I'm sorry to see you step down but I know how life can get in the way of things.

I hope your real life issues aren't anything too serious and that everything works out for you.
Best wishes and if you need anything feel free to contact me.

I suppose there's no way to get updates about Mark???

Hope for the best!

Gary

Ahoy Mark

Sadly I havent surfaced here much lately due to my own real life issues so I have only just heard the news.

Mark I have always been truly inspired by your friendliness and editorial leadership.

You were always there for me personally in the dark moments of this internet forum business and I will always remember it.

All the very best for the future mate.

May you always sail calm waters.

Cheers

Sean