Hey Dewey,
I just looked at your profile and it says you are active duty US Navy. Whats a navy man doing in Colorado Springs? Or is that just the home town. When I was in the navy back probably before you were born, I served on a DER out of Treasure Island. We were part of the Air Early Warning system for SAC. Part of our flotilla was made up of YGR's the old "liberty" ships from WWII. I was never on board one, but I heard they had full blown wood shops for the crew as recreation... and rumor had it that one of the officer's was building a sail boat on board in his spare time. Because they were larger, they mostly worked the northern stations where the seas tended to be a little rougher, so he may have been making sure he had a life boat in case of problems??
Anyway, my first thoughts were... Navy in Colorado Springs.. that's as bad as when I was doing ocean freight forwarding out of Tucson.
BTW, I'm thinking that Vaughn may be on to something... you're a ringer!
Those are really nice eggs.