AFTER A COUPLE YEARS BRINGING THE FIRST 42 UP TO NEW STANDARDS DOING A MAJOR RETRO-FIT, THE WIFE AND I SET OUT FOR WARMER WEATHER AND HEADED SOUTH.. THE FIRST TERM WE HAD TO GET USED TO WAS "TRANSIENT". FOR THOSE MOVING THROUGH I WAS TOLD, BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE WE WERE AMOUNG THOSE GOING WEST AFTER THE GREAT FAMIN OF THE MID-WEST, WITH A MATTRESS TYED TO THE TOP OF OUR CAR. BUT IT WAS'NT UNTIL WE WERE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHERE I VISITED A LOCAL MARINE STORE, THAT THE TRUTH REALLY CAME OUT. I HAD SET THE PRODUCTS I HAD WISHED TO BUY UP ON THE COUNTER. A LONG COUNTER WITH A CASH REGISTER AT EACH END.. THE GENTELMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER ASKED POLITELY IF WE HAD AN ACCOUNT WITH THEM, MY REPLY WAS NO. HE THEN MOTIONED ME TO THE OTHER END OF THE COUNTER SAYING THAT THIS REGISTER WAS FOR ACCOUNTS ONLY. IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT I REALIZED, WE HAD BECOME, "NO ACCOUNT TRANSIENTS"