[Rhodes22-list] Northern Pull

[Slim]

I'm out too as of today.  It was a beautiful day here in Minnesota.  Temps
in the 60s and calm breezes, leaves turning--wonderful.  Dan helped with
vehicles and trailering and everything went smoothly.  He found us a great
deal on indoor winter storage.  You won't believe who else is storing their
boat here.  8-)

Slim

On 10/9/05 10:10 PM, "Robert Dobson" <robertdobson777 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Another sad report from the North. Saturday AM, I put
> Kel Lee on the Hard. I and my hardy wife got to the
> boat at 7am at 43 degrees and no wind on Lake Geneva,
> Wisconsin. We have it on a public buoy in town. With
> dingy in tow, we set out across the lake for the mile
> and a half trip. The buoy is in a rather protected
> area from North winds. As soon as we cleared the area
> the winds shot up to 15 plus. At 40 degrees that is
> not a pretty sight.Two sweat shirts and a stocking cap
> is not my idea on appropriate sailing gear. 45 minutes
> later we approached our dock and launch only to see a
> power boat fisherman had pull up on the end of the
> dock,my only available holding area til I could get my
> turn at the launch. In these condition no sensible
> people should be out.(I don't think fisherman are
> sometimes much smarter than the fish)  After circling
> a bit, he finally left and I headed for the dock. The
> wind shifted to from the northeast and I was coming up
> on the dock straight east. Sounded like a good plan
> but I came up short on the dock because of the wind
> and had to fight to get the boat from hitting the
> first boat in the first slip. I final rapped it around
> the dock and winds held me very tight to the dock .
> Thank God for bumpers. I almost did not need to tie
> off.
>  For the third year in a row I am asking myself, Why
> am I waiting this long in the short season to pull? We
> are required to have the boat off the buoy by Oct 15.
> Last Saturday was a great sail  with good wind and 87
> degrees. So I got nailed again . Rummy,  move over I
> am coming South.
>  My Son finally showed up at the launch with trailer
> 8:45. So I meet him and set up the extender on the
> trailer. Told him to put it in to have the bulks about
> 6" out of the water. I headed for the boat, untied and
> swung her in to the wind and around the end of the
> dock with the wind at my back. To get into the launch
> required a zig zag maneuver to get in position. The
> winds were up to 20 by this time,so I am coming with
> no brakes,except for reverse on my 8hp. motor.
> Amazingly I did it better than I parked the car.
>  I have in the past had a problem getting the boat
> far enough forward on the trailer. This time I studied
> all the comments on the list and followed your advice.
> It worked. The extender on the trailer changes the
> angle to lessen the distance between the stern of the
> boat and angle that the boat is in the water. I had to
> get in the water to crank her all the way up to the
> bow support.The water was actually very a nice
> temperature compare to the rest of the conditions. My
> son pulled out 1 foot and I cranked. I did this 3
> times ,one foot at a time and experienced very little
> slip-age . I have a single axle Triad and she is
> sitting in the position where the the back part of the
> third cabin window is over the axle. Tow weight seams
> great although I only go a mile or so to winter
> storage. The other thing I did was to spray the bulks
> one week earlier with a can of "Liquid Rollers" I am
> not sure, but I think it helped. Just a pre-caution, I
> used ty-downs. Anyway ,by 10:02 she was de-rigged and
> resting comfortable "On the Hard"   Each time you
> really get better and more efficient at it. End of
> Northern Tail.
> 
> 
> 
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