Wiley's Welcome

[wiley]

Wiley's Welcome

Hello. Most of you know me as Wiley, the Founder of The Hull Truth Boating Forum. I was the sole owner and operator of The Hull Truth for 7 years.

Two years ago several circumstances (including an overwhelming amount of work hours) required that I accept an outside offer from a large company to sell THT. The concept was simple, the buyer would use their own company staff along with my assistance and continue to operate the forum in the manner of which I created it. We worked on the terms and discussed the conditions. Everything looked great so the deal was made.

Soon after the sale however I found sale things did not go quite as we discussed. While I won't go into any specifics, and do not wish to dwell on the past, I will say that after the sale I was disappointed with how many things on the forum had either changed or faded away. Where the original goal was to have a company come in to run the bigger operations of the forum (tech, sales, legal) and my objective was to continue as a large part of the daily operations (as they even stated publicly in a forum post), let's just say it didn't work out that way and the forum slipped away from my original philosophy - with me no longer even part of the daily involvement.

Fast-forward 720 days.......... Since I never wanted my last forum to turn in the direction it did with such great people on board I have decided once again to put my 7+ years of boating forum skills back to use with my new web forum - ReelBoating.com. It's time to build bigger and better with fresh ideas, new features, and bringing back some of the old philosophies which made the last forum so successful.

OK - Moving on from the past.

Welcome back to those who have faith I will again deliver a great product, and welcome to those who I have yet to met online.

I' once again look forward to building the strongest, most informative boating forum community from the "stringers" up with all of you.

Thanks for visiting!

[Blue Bayou]

Looking forward to the new forum. Best of luck, Wiley.

[Murphjup]

I REELY Like the new Layout Wiley!!!

Congrats Im sure it will take off...

Say Hi To Wet for us....

Come for a Square Grouper day!!!

[striperking82]

very nice

[Fishinspot]

Nice website once again. Build it and they will come!!!!

[Trollnheel]

Very cool Wiley man! Done with the old and looking forward to the new! Want a pretzel?

[aftergolf]

Glad to be here and looking forward to another great site by Wiley.

[seahawg]

Wow. Talk about shear dumb luck, in finding this place. Who would have thought I'd see an ad on THT with the name Wiley in it. I'm glad the non-compete is up, and thank you for getting back in the game. If this place is half as good as the old THT, it will be a welcome breath of fresh air.

I admire your diplomacy, in how you defer from commenting on your former "business partners". A class act as usual.

Again, thanks for putting this together. I look forward to a return, to the days of old...

[HOTSPOT]

Wiley, I posted a "heads up" about this site on my site. Hope that was okay.

[HOTSPOT]

Wow. Talk about shear dumb luck, in finding this place. Who would have thought I'd see an ad on THT with the name Wiley in it. I'm glad the non-compete is up, and thank you for getting back in the game. If this place is half as good as the old THT, it will be a welcome breath of fresh air.

I admire your diplomacy, in how you defer from commenting on your former "business partners". A class act as usual.

Again, thanks for putting this together. I look forward to a return, to the days of old...

Doug?