[Rhodes22-list] Fenders, Dave and Elton's phone call

[David Bradley]

Ed, assuming you are asking this Dave...  nope, I didn't get a chance to go
in the back building but if I do go down I'll check it out.  I have four new
fenders waiting for a boat, but maybe there's something else I need.

My hope is to go to Edenton to take delivery and go for a shake-down sail
with Stan, as you say.  If I can't find a weekend that will work before late
April I'll see if Elton can haul her north to CT and take her for a sail
with me in LIS.  Either way, I agree wholeheartedly with the need for a
shake-down cruise and some helpful hints at the helm.

I didn't anticipate all these distractions of new jobs and real estate stuff
getting in the way of taking delivery in March.  Damn, gotta get my
priorities straight.

Dave B.


On 3/26/06, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> Dave,
>      When you visited Edenton, did Stan show you the room with all the
> "stuff"?  The room with the life preservers some from when he was a boy,
> the
> fenders, the lines, generally all sorts of stuff that came with the boats
> he
> picked up for recycle?
>      If you are going to get the boat, pick out some used fenders and
> offer
> Stan a few dollars to get started.  If Elton is delivering, have him pick
> out half a dozed is assorted sizes and shapes  in pairs and tell him you
> want them cheap to do your own testing to see what you really need.
>      All this fuss over fenders.  I am not sure that I have any two that
> are exactly alike.  As Bill E said they wear out and you have to put them
> in
> the big green box.  What they have today is probably not what they have in
> two years.
>      I guarentee that if you use your boat, fenders or no fenders, you
> will
> put some dings in it.  Or if you do not, somebody else will.
>       If you are going to Edenton to get the boat, make sure that Stan or
> Elton take you on a shake down sail.  Get them to put the boat thru a good
> test with you at the helm.  Elton says Stan is the better sailor, but
> either
> one is better than any body else you will ever get a chance to sail with.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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