[Rhodes22-list] Wild Wind

[Wally Buck]

Ed,
I went to my boat yesterday with no plan on sailing. My tiller was left home 
with coat 3 of varnish drying. I was going to rebed the table support that 
goes in the cockpit floor. It turns out that there was some rot and the wood 
needed to dry out before I could start repairs. I exposed the area and 
started puttering around doing a few others things,

I watched a few boats go out and then the wind started to pick up. I decided 
I was going to lash my boat hook pole down and use as a tiller. It actually 
worked just. Because I was working on the boat I had the pop top up and left 
it that way while sailing. Well of couse the wind picked up even more and 
and  because I didn't have my real tiller with extension I really couldn't 
sit up on the rail. I really needed some rail meat. After burying the rails 
a couple fo times I finally lowered pop top, and boom; and things were much 
better. An awesome day!

I am glad to see your lake levels returned.

Wally





>From: "Kroposki" <kroposki@innova.net>
>Reply-To: kroposki@innova.net,The Rhodes 22 mail list 
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>To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] New Pop Top 'Tent'
>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:53:25 -0500
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>Rummy,
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>       Did you have Rum Runner in the water today?  Was I the only R 22
>on the lake?  My boat behaved well in all that wind.  I sailed over some
>of the islands of last summer.  It was definitely one of your x days.
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>                             Ed K
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