[Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.

[Peter Thorn]

Wally,

Sounds like you've passed to Nirvana.  That cabin sounds better than sailing
on clear October day 10-15 steady from the SW!

PT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.


> Now I am really glad I don't have to pull my boat for the winter. We are
> having some great sailing weather. This last week end we spent in the
> mountains at a friends cabin. His whole cabin runs on 12 volt system
powered
> by solar panels. He has 2 6-volt Trojan batteries. Great views and colors
> are almost peak. He also has a wood buring hot tub.
>
> The first weekend I haven't gone sailing in almost 4 months!
>
> Wally
>
> >From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.
> >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:20:19 -0600
> >
> >Rummy,
> >
> >Good call. That's exactly what I was doing today--hauling out the fleet:
> >The Rhodes, the pontoon, Prindle cat, Lazar, a fishing boat and the dock.
> >
> >The day was cursed from the beginning.  Everything that could go wrong,
> >did.
> >First, I got up at the crack of noon (you know I'm not a morning person)
> >only to discover that my Rhodes trailer had been towed away from the
front
> >of my house.  Apparently, there's an ordinance about "unattended"
trailers
> >that I was unaware of.  I know, I know, ignorance of the law is no
excuse,
> >but shit, man, it was towed YESTERDAY--the day before I needed it.  It's
> >been parked there for two months. I guess this is the "fall clean-up."
Two
> >hours and $187 later, after getting lost looking for the damn impound
lot,
> >I
> >arrived at the lake.
> >
> >First, we took out the pontoon with a rented trailer.  It's an easy job
but
> >the boat ramp was crowded and I had to wait in line for 45 minutes.  I
hate
> >Sundays on lake Minnetonka!
> >
> >Then we went for the Rhodes and took down the mast at the dock.  Missing
> >tools and hardware made that a full hour job.  By now, we were losing our
> >daylight and we only had one boat out.  We took a very chilly boat ride
to
> >the ramp (last Sunday, it was warm and beautiful, but no wind for
sailing)
> >and by the time we got there it was dark.  I'm a pretty good
> >trailer-backer,
> >but in the dark, it's a struggle.  I have the typical musician's van with
> >no
> >rear or side windows (shaggin' wagon) and I had a terrible time seeing
what
> >I was doing.  We finally got the boat on the trailer, and as we were
> >pulling
> >out, I discovered that I had not shut off the motor!  So, I'm panicking
> >because it's out of the water, and I make an olympic gymnastics move from
> >the driver's seat, through the back of the van and out the rear doors,
> >tight-roped across the tongue (extended) and flipped myself onto the bow
> >and
> >tumbled back to the cockpit to kill the motor.  It was then that I
> >discovered that not one, but BOTH up-haul AND down-haul rudder lines had
> >just broke and we were dragging the rudder on the cement.  As I struggled
> >to
> >get the rudder up, of course, it came out of the gudgeons and fell in the
> >water.  Christ Almighty!  Why have You forsaken me?
> >
> >After recovering the tiller/rudder, we pulled the boat out of the water
and
> >towed it home with the four-way flashers on the whole way because the
night
> >lights on the trailer didn't work.
> >
> >So now we're pulling the boat back to Judi's (our co-owner) yard and
> >backing
> >it into place, (and struggling in the dark, with much shouting and
> >everybody's in a bad mood by now) and her neighbor comes out and starts
> >bitching about where the boat is being stored--too close to their house.
> >
> >So now we have this big argument with the neighbor.  JUST SHOOT ME!  The
> >rest of the boats and the dock are still in the water and it's going to
> >snow
> >this week.
> >
> >And the Vikings lost!!!
> >
> >F**k me,
> >Slim
> >
> >On 10/26/03 6:45 AM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been scratching my increasingly balding head trying to figure out
> >why
> > > the list has been so quiet. I finally figured it out this morning. All
> >our
> > > northern sailing friends are either scrambling to take their boats out
> >for the
> > > season or they already have them on the hard.
> > > I guess it's just up to us southerners to keep the chatter alive.
> > > Ed, I hear that Yankee Clippers auto-pilot should be installed this
> >weekend.
> > >
> > > Rummy
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