[Rhodes22-list] Winter sailing blues - cure found

[Mary Lou Troy]

Wow!!! Hooweeee! Congratulations. What a beautiful boat! Is that one of the 
Bob Perry Tayanas? She's gorgeous! What fun!. did I say congratulations?!!?

I am so pleased for you!

Mary Lou


At 08:02 PM 1/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>All this talk of winter sailing while Raven's been on the hard has been
>tough for us, Christmas parade float notwithstanding. The weather doesn't
>help much, either - Sunday we were sitting on the patio in our shirt sleeves
>having a beer with some friends, and this morning we woke up to a blustery 8
>degrees F. Sheesh.
>
>Being weak willed (and perhaps a bit weak-minded), we decided to do
>something about it.
>
>Julie and I went to the bank this morning and signed the papers to buy a
>1986 Tayana 37. At about 15 feet longer on deck, 3 1/2 feet wider, and about
>10 tons heavier, we're hoping she'll be big enough to distract us from these
>wintertime non-sailing blues. Hopefully by next winter (or the one after
>that) we'll be in warmer climes and won't have to go through this sort of
>withdrawal again - I doubt we could afford it again, anyway <g>.
>
>Actually, it's been in the works since we went to the SSCA gam in Melbourne,
>FL last November, but we didn't want to say anything until it was a done
>deal - you know how these things sometimes go. We're bringing her up to the
>Chesapeake next spring and plan to gradually spend more and more time aboard
>over the next year with an eye toward eventually living aboard and heading
>south. Time'll tell...
>
>Here's a link to some pictures - http://www.kaynor.org/rachel.
>
>Mark Kaynor
>
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