[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Ben

[Jim White]

Hey Ben
It's 78 degrees here, the wind is SSE at 8 to 15, slightly overcast and on 
my way back from lunch there were several other  sailors out... Oh boy, I 
feel a drinking/sailing afternoon coming on.

Remember: you never get time wasted to waste again!
jw
Jim White
Le Menagerie
(....getting ready to cast off....)

At 01:32 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>Heck Hank, it's to confuse all of the non-sailers.  Even the earliest 
>sailers in
>history knew that it would be more fun to get on the boat, get liquored 
>up, and
>make fun of the landlubbers confusion than if the names were things like 
>"front
>part" or "hypotenuse" instead of "luff" and "leech".
>
>Bob - the close up photo of you sailing in the ski hat and goggles is 
>priceless.
>  Stan needs to get that on the GB site.  How about a heading like, "Is 
> the Rhodes
>22 that Much Fun to Sail, or Are Our Clients Crazy?"
>
>BTW, I'm stuck behind a desk on a sunny, 13 knot, 61 degree afternoon.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben
>
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:17 , Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> sent:
>
> >One thing I've never understood.  If the back part of the sail is
> >called the Leech, why is it called luffing when it starts to flap? or
> >am I just confused?
> >
> >Hank
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:18:25 -0500, ed kroposki ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> >> Look at the pictures from Yankee Clipper and Rum Runner sailing on Sunday.
> >> I have a question on sail adjustment.  Looking at the leach of the 
> main, is
> >> it correct or most efficient to have it that loose?
> >>
> >> Ed K
> >> Greenville, SC, USA
> >> Addendum:  Instructions that say low maintenance really mean impossible to
> >> fix.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >>
>[rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org','','','')">rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]
>On Behalf Of Steve Alm
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:07 PM
> >> To: Rhodes
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sunday Sailing
> >>
> >> Well shucks, Rummy's rails aren't even close to the water.
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 3/1/05 6:54 AM, "Bob Keller" r22yankeeclipper at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Today is March 1 and I am looking out the window in Atlanta and 
> everything
> >> > (except the roads) is covered in a light layer of snow.  Unbelievable.
> >> > Especially since two days ago Rum Runner and Yankee Clipper had some 
> great
> >> > sailing on Hartwell.  Good wind 10-15 knots, but it was pretty 
> cold.  See
> >> > the pictures of Rum Runner under sail and then of yours truly with my
> >> winter
> >> > sailing garb.  The other picture is proof that we sailied to the 
> Hartwell
> >> > dam and back.
> >> > Bob K
> >> > Yankee Clipper
> >> >
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