"He was never asking for a hand-out, it just morphed into that." 

I'm to blame for that. I just thought that perhaps being a 20' boat that maybe the list could help him out with transport. 

Ben's website and on-line advice has been really valuable to many of us so I was looking for a way that perhaps "we" could return the favor. I should have cleared that with Ben first.  

I can understand being burned out and was just trying to help and I overstepped my bounds with my request/suggestion. 

I think we can stop here, as Ben requested. My apologies to the list and Ben. 

John