A Pool · unlisted · vouching-required

Harbor Trades

Six tradespeople in and around Port Ellery. Each was nominated by a member who worked beside them, vouched for by a curator who checked, and said yes. Nobody here can be written to cold. Contractors ask a curator, and the curator asks first.

The charterpools/harbor-trades.json

Seen Work: Harbor Trades

Tradespeople in and around Port Ellery who can speak to each other’s work: electricians, carpenters, plumbers, welders, tile setters and sound. Everyone here was nominated by a member who worked beside them, and vouched for by a curator who checked. Unlisted, so no employer finds it by searching. Contractors ask a curator, and the curator asks you first. No referral fees, from anyone.

Curators: Delphine Arceneaux (primary) Signed in with OAuth Rigoberto “Rigo” Paz Signed in with OAuth
Visibility: unlisted. Not in our discovery file or any registry §3.2 §8.3.
Consent: vouching-required. A member nominates, a curator checks and vouches; you still say yes or no, and can leave in a minute §5.4.
Messages: Pool minimum sender verification email. Every member’s own page: any verified sender, no cold messages §7.2.
Block lists: Kindling public list, and the Circular consortium list §7.3.
Status: active · updated 10 September 2026
The file: pools/harbor-trades.json

How the Pool is kept

A member nominates in their own words; a curator calls them and goes to look.
A vouch is local to this Pool §4.4. It does not follow anyone anywhere.
Nobody here has an auto-accept rule §5.5, and no referral goes out without a yes.
People are shown in the order they said yes, never by a score.
Each card links to the person’s own work page. The words are theirs; the vouch is ours to give.

Listed

Six people, in the order they said yes

Each card is what the person wrote on their own work page, parsed when they said yes, with their verification level beside the name. Under it hangs their vouch: who saw the work, the job, and the curator who recorded it. Profile addresses are shown as text. Photos stay on their own pages §2.5.

Electrical1 · said yes 20 January

Sam Adebayo

Vouched for by the curator

sam-adebayo-electric.example · they/them

Union electrician, inside wireman. Service upgrades, knob-and-tube coming out, power for boat sheds and stages. Short jobs and weekends when the hall has me on days.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Rigo Paz, curator

Worked beside them on the cannery cold-storage refit, fall 2024. Three weeks pulling wire in a freezer, and not one corner cut to get out of the cold.

Cannery cold-storage refit · fall 2024

Vouched by Rigo Paz, curator, on 20 JanuarySigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Sam’s page, not in any other Pool.

Sound and low voltage2 · said yes 3 February

Wes Adeyemi

Vouched for by the curator

wes-mixes.example/work · he/him

Sound and low-voltage installer. Speaker lines, stage snakes, and hearing loops for halls and churches. Mixes front-of-house most weekends.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Sam Adebayo

Worked beside him on the Ferry Room stage rebuild, winter 2025. Ran every speaker line through the new riser and labeled both ends.

Ferry Room stage rebuild · winter 2025

Vouched by Rigo Paz, curator, on 3 FebruarySigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Wes’s page, not in any other Pool.

Carpentry3 · said yes 17 February

Leo Marchetti

Vouched for by the curator

leo-marchetti-carpentry.example · he/him

Carpenter. Framing, decks, stage risers and finish work. Early starts, clean sites, invoices that add up.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Wes Adeyemi

Watched him build the new stage riser on the Ferry Room rebuild, winter 2025. Level, quiet, and it still does not squeak.

Ferry Room stage rebuild · winter 2025

Vouched by Rigo Paz, curator, on 17 FebruarySigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Leo’s page, not in any other Pool.

Plumbing4 · said yes 10 March

Oskar Vainio

Vouched for by the curator

oskar-vainio.example · he/him

Licensed plumber. Old houses, boathouses, and the galvanized pipe someone has meant to replace since 1970. Evenings and weekends for small jobs.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Delphine Arceneaux, curator

Ran the plumbing on the Sea Scouts boathouse for me, summer 2023. Replaced the old galvanized under a floor nobody wanted to open, and left it cleaner than he found it.

Sea Scouts boathouse · summer 2023

Vouched by Delphine Arceneaux, curator, on 10 MarchSigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Oskar’s page, not in any other Pool.

Finish carpentry5 · said yes 6 May

Marcus Hale

Vouched for by the curator

marcus-hale-joinery.example · he/him

Finish carpenter and furniture maker. Trim, built-ins, stair rails, and scribing new wood to old walls. Two-week jobs suit me best.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Sam Adebayo

Worked beside him on the Pilot House refit, spring 2026. Scribed the new wainscot to walls that have not been square in a hundred years.

Pilot House refit · spring 2026

Vouched by Rigo Paz, curator, on 6 MaySigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Marcus’s page, not in any other Pool.

Tile and masonry6 · said yes 20 May

Thandi Mokoena

Vouched for by the curator

thandi-mokoena-tile.carrd.example · she/her

Tile setter and mason. Floors, showers, and the old brick nobody else wants to repoint. Takes jobs from two days to two months.

Messages: from any verified sender, and only after they have said yes to hearing from you.

Seen by Marcus Hale

Worked beside her on the Pilot House refit, spring 2026. Set the washroom floor tight to my cabinets and came back a week later to check the grout.

Pilot House refit · spring 2026

Vouched by Delphine Arceneaux, curator, on 20 MaySigned in with OAuth

Counts in Harbor Trades only. Not on Thandi’s page, not in any other Pool.

Where a vouch counts

Sam’s vouch, read from five places

A vouch is local to the Pool that gave it §4.4. Here is what each reader sees for Sam Adebayo.

Who reads it	What it shows	Why
Harbor Trades, this Pool	Vouched for by the curator	Vouched for by Rigo Paz on 20 January, with Rigo’s own words for what he saw.
Sam’s own work page	Signed in with OAuth	Sam’s own identity, signed in with OAuth. The page says nothing about the vouch unless Sam writes it there.
Another Pool Sam joins	Signed in with OAuth	Sam’s own level, until that Pool’s curator vouches there, in their own words, for their own reasons.
Bellows, for a member who added Harbor Trades	Vouched for by the curator	The vouch, labeled as this Pool’s, because Bellows is reading this Pool’s file.
Any app reading any other Pool	Signed in with OAuth	Nothing from here. The vouch lives in this file and nowhere else.

Cross-Pool portability is planned for v0.2 §4.6. We would still want a vouch to stay where it was given.

Ask the Pool

A plain question, answered from the file

This is how a curator starts when a contractor asks. Only people who said yes are in this Pool’s file, so only they can come up §5.1. Ximena, whose invitation is still waiting, is not in it. Answers appear in the order people said yes.

Leo MarchettiVouched for by the curator
Carpenter. Framing, decks, stage risers and finish work. Early starts, clean sites, invoices that add up.
Marcus HaleVouched for by the curator
Finish carpenter and furniture maker. Trim, built-ins, stair rails, and scribing new wood to old walls. Two-week jobs suit me best.

The box answers; it does not introduce. Every member keeps no_cold_messages on, so a curator asks each person before anyone is introduced. See a referral. Nothing was sent. This is an example, answered in this page from the manifest.

Who can write to whom

Who can write to Marcus, checked

Each row is checked in this page with Kindling’s rules, against Marcus’s own work page, this Pool’s minimum and its two block lists, the way a compliant client would §7.

Who writes	Result	Rule	Why
bulk-intros@relay.example	Blocked	Shared block list §7.3	On the Circular consortium block list, which this Pool subscribes to (spam).
Someone unverified, not in this Pool	Held back	Pool minimum §3.3	This Pool asks senders to be at least email verified.
A contractor, signed in with OAuth, with no introduction	Held back	No cold messages §7.2	No first message until both of you have said you would like to hear from each other.
Oskar Vainio, a member here, writing through the Pool	Held back	No cold messages §7.2	No first message until both of you have said you would like to hear from each other.
Wendell Ashby, after Delphine asked Marcus and he said yes	Delivered	All rules met §7	Allowed by his rules: signed in with OAuth, and Marcus said yes.

Members still talk to each other the way they always have. Through the Pool, a first message waits for a yes.

A member’s own screen

Leaving is one action

This is Thandi’s own screen for the Pool: her card, the curators, and one way out.

Leaving sends one withdrawal message, and the Pool must process it within sixty seconds §5.3. Her work page stays hers, and so does every contractor she has already been introduced to. What privacy a Pool has comes from its visibility, never from kindling_noindex, which means “do not include me in any Pool at all” §2.7.

The curators themselves are listed in a separate, public Pool, Seen Work Curators, so anyone can find one to ask.

Seen WorkThandi’s screen

Harbor Trades

Kept by Delphine ArceneauxSigned in with OAuth

You are listed here. A curator writes to you when a contractor asks for work you do. Nobody can write to you first.

Your card: Thandi MokoenaVouched for by the curator