[Rhodes22-list] End Of Summer but great fall sailing in South Carolina

[Kroposki]

Rummy,
	Did you get Ben to go out?  There were only four sailboats out
on the south end.  Two of them were less than twenty feet.  I think one
must have been a Lightening 19 because he could move.  With that west
wind funneling between the point and islands, it took some very long
tacks to sail out of big water.  
	The word is that Yankee Clipper is back in the water.  We will
see.
                       Ed K 

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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Roger Pihlaja
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:18 PM
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] End Of Summer

On Friday, amidst cold drizzling rain & gusty winds up to 20 knots, with
the temperature in the low 40's deg F, I cleaned & prepped Dynamic
Equilibrium for winter storage, & then towed it over to the Midland
County Fairgrounds.  This year, secure indoor storage inside one of the
Midland County Fairground's animal exhibition buildings cost me $192.
Boats & RV's can be stored at the fairgrounds from October 1st until May
1st.  Winter storage at the fairgrounds is such a good deal; that,
people come from as far away as Detroit & Grand Rapids & the facility
fills up pretty rapidly.  As luck would have it, this weekend I didn't
have a lab report to write & the rest of the homework load was not too
unreasonable.  So, despite the poor weather, this was definitely the
weekend to take care of the boat.  I didn't get the hull & interior as
clean as I would have liked under the miserable conditions, but I'll
deal with those issues in the spring.  Ever since deciding to go back to
college in the last week of July, we haven't used the boat very much,
just no time.  We didn't take any sort of cruise on Dynamic Equilibrium
this year.  Hopefully, next year, there will be more time to enjoy it.

Putting the boat into winter storage is always the "official" end of
summer for me.  As I write this, my younger son, Gary, is attending his
high school homecoming dance.  The seasons change & life moves on.  I've
been looking wistfully out my rec room window at Sanford Lake as I've
doing my homework, wondering what the new year will bring, & finding it
somewhat difficult to concentrate.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium 
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