[Rhodes22-list] Kate

[Mary Lou Troy]

Pete,
She's a pretty boat. I like the look of those Jim Taylor designs. As far as 
camp-cruising on the Com-Pac - we were younger then and two nights was the 
most we ever did. On the other hand you caught us a the start of an 8 day 
cruise on the Rhodes. It was a blast and a real pleasure meeting you, Tana, 
Tom and Catherine. We'll look forward to seeing you again.

Mary Lou

At 01:35 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Mary Lou and Fred,
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>I thought you and the list might want to see our first cruising boat - 
>Kate, our Starwind 19.  Kate's a good boat, but just too small for two for 
>more than a daysail.  In the parking lot at Casa Rio, there was a Compac 
>16 on the dry (I suppose like your old one), and Tana was very impressed 
>with you after she saw it's small cabin.
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>Going upwind, I think its hard to beat a keel/cb in a trailerable going 
>close hauled.  Throughout our 3 day trip to St Michaels, the winds were 
>mostly on the nose going both ways.  Cousin Tom, in the waterballusted 
>Mac26x, would slowly fall back to the horizon - completely unable to keep 
>up with our pointing.  Of course, he would just furl the sails, haul the 
>rudders, drain the tank and catch up in 10 minutes planing with his 50 hp 
>Suzuki full throttle in speedboat mode.    This process repeated several 
>times throughout the trip.  I imagine with the Rhodes extra speed, it 
>would be lots worse.
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>It was a pleasure to meet you.  The Chesapeake is wonderful and we can't 
>wait to return with the Rhodes.
>
>Fair winds,
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>PT
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