[Rhodes22-list] Wood burning hot tubs

Mon Oct 27 17:17:06 EST 2003

Slim,

I actually have two friends who have this set up. it is kind of hard to 
picture but they are great.

http://www.snorkel.com/stoves.html

It is more like the hot tubs in Japan, no real jets or pumps. There is 
actually a small wood burning stove that sits of to one side directly in the 
hot tub behind a wooden grate. My friend actually uses a 350 or 400 gallon 
rubber maid container and his tub is supplied by filtered rain water. He has 
had this set up for several years.

Sit back with a great mountain view and enjoy. Perfect for two!

>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 12:18:01 -0600
>
>Wally,
>
>A wood burning hot tub?  Isn't that what the cannibals use? And that 
>reminds
>me of a joke:
>
>Cannibals were cooking up a pot of Irish stew, complete with one Irishman
>stewing in the pot.  As they were preparing the dish, the cook kept bopping
>the Irishman on the head with his spoon.  Another cannibal asked the cook,
>"Why do you keep hitting the Irishman?"  The cook replied, "He's eating all
>the potatoes."
>
>Slim
>
>On 10/27/03 9:31 AM, "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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