[Rhodes22-list] Early spring training

[Paul Grandholm]

Hi Doug,

     I built a 30' X 60' pole barn a few years back.  I put in 9' wide X 
10' high overhead doors on each end.  Sounds like plenty of room, right?  
WRONG!  With an 8' beam, it only gives me an extra 6" on each side to 
squeeze the boat in.  The furling drum, laying on the bow pulpit bumps 
the rubber of the open overhead door on top.  Make sure you put in bigger 
doors than I did.

Paul  
>
>I've gone about 320 or so.
>
>Isn't LHL an awful long way for you to go for a sail?  I thought I was far
>away at 1 hour!  Now I'm 20 mins.
>
>Or are you just going to winter down there, and move her back up to Superior
>for all seven weeks of mosquito and fly season?
>
>I made a bit of a mistake in winter prep... I never covered Fretnaught,
>planning to decorate her for the holidays as I used to do.  Never happened,
>then we had the huge rains.  I thought everything was draining nicely, but
>Saturday I went out and looked in the Lazarrette.  Everything was encased in
>a very large block of ice.  Water was backing up into the lazzy and I didn't
>know it.  Now its frozen solid.  God, I hope there's no damage!  I've had
>frozen water in there before, but never this much.  *sigh*.  Well, if it
>isn't one thing its another.  At least I remembered to put a block under the
>rear of the trailer so she isn't sticking nose up!  Maybe I should store her
>at LHL?  Sounds like an idea... just move the whole northern Rhodes fleet
>south for the winter!
>
>In other news... Dylan is now 2 1/2 years old.  About time to learn how to
>set a spinnaker!  Great little guy, but he does have all of the standard
>toddler issues. Kyle is 8 months old, today.  He is the sweetest little guy
>you could imagine.  He loves to smile and laugh in exchange for nothing more
>than a friendly look.  He's had his share of trouble, though: Starting out
>life in the newborn ICU at Children's hospital, then after thanksgiving he
>had a nasty bout with RSV (a respiratory virus which is like a cold to us,
>but can be deadly for infants.)  He was hospitalized for the better part of
>a week with that... much of it on oxygen.  Then last week he was in the
>hospital with pneumonia.  Oh, and ear infections.  He is better now, but we
>do need to be very careful.
>
>We are more or less settled in the new house.  Probably will build a pole
>barn, but need to investigate that a bit.  Looking at options for it.  I'd
>LIKE to have enough room in it for the boat and the camper, as well as the
>tractor and a workshop.  We'll see.
>
>--Doug
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Rik Sandberg
>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:38 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Early spring training
>
>
>Hi Doug,
>
>Oooo ....288.8 don't know how far it will go, but that seemed like a long
>one. :-) :-) :-)
>
>How the heck ya been??? You're awful quite lately.
>
>Happy Little Girls 2 is now residing full time at LHL. I attached a pic of
>her there hibernating
>
>Rik
>
>
>At 12:30 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
>>Care for a little batting practice?
>>
>>Check this one out:
>>http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf
>>
>>(PS In case anyone was wondering where I went... I've been here.  Just too
>>busy to contribute much)
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