[Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.

[Saroj]

Anne,

I have to admint you got me giggling as my mind took off with the new
marketing tag on the Rhodes22 site: "So easy to single-hand -- all lines
lead to the cockpit. Even a woman single-hander can pee over the side while
maintaining perfect control of the boat."

Saroj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "anima" <anima13 at bellsouth.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.


> I regularly pee overboard while single handing and no one is the
wiser...all
> that land with no houses...just have to be on the right tack!
> Anne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> To: <johntonjes at earthlink.net>; "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.
>
>
> > It is getting time for a new subject, at least for this quarter, what
> about the difficulty of sex while single handing, or the
> > average man takes only 1.5 minutes, or how many ways can a port leak,
> "stupid boat ticks", even blowing up a boat from gas fumes in
> > the lasserret.
> >
> > MJM
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Tonjes" <johntonjes at earthlink.net>
> > To: "Rhodes org. owners list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:40 PM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.
> >
> >
> > > Roger,
> > > OK, so we now know that the four stroke engines do not have a
catalytic
> converter, which makes them already not very
> > environmentally friendly. Catalytic converters were put on vehicles to
> reduce the effects of acid rain which is a chemical reaction
> > involving the exhausted gases, moisture and sunlight and returns the
> moisture as acid rain and is also the major cause of smog.
> > > If my college chemistry isn't failing me, the unburned hydrocarbons
> emitted from 2 stroke engines, although entering the water
> > supply, are simply evaporated by the sunlight in a matter of days. Kind
of
> what happens with an oil slick from a oil tanker that has
> > run aground and broke open. However, I understand that the government
> mandated additives in the gasoline stay behind. Seems to me
> > you eliminate the additives from the gasoline and it's a toss up as to
> which engine pollutes more.
> > >
> > > Rummy
> > >
> > >
> > > John Tonjes
> > > johntonjes at earthlink.net
> > > Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
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