[Rhodes22-list] repowering Fretless

[Tootle]

Mary Lou,

Cancel all those other plans of yours for the next two months.  You and Fred
pack two duffel bags, get an extra gas tank and make like two happy snow
birds.  Sail over to the Dismal Swamp Canal, stop and visit with Commodore
Spitzer and keep heading south.  Bye and bye you will find yourself at
Savannah and you can visit with Captain Keller.  In Savannah stop and see
the ships in a bottle museum.  

Just think, by Christmas you can be in Key West!  

Think of what Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 

If you wait to do it next year, it will never happen.  But if you set sail
south now, you will be quacking all the way...

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA




Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> Thought I would report that we managed to rassle the new Yamaha T8 
> from the outboard cart onto the foredeck. Then Fred, with the help of 
> a very fine gentleman from Holland, muscled it over the cabintop, 
> into the cockpit and over the stern rail onto the motor mount. I 
> think that Fred and I could have done it but not as quickly. It was 
> wonderful to have the help of someone with a bit more muscle and 
> longer arms and legs.  His Island Packet just happened to be in the 
> slip across from ours while he's getting some work done.
> 
> Burt, the motor mount is backed with plywood and has 6 or 8 bolts 
> holding it to the transom. The Yamaha runs very well but it does seem 
> to have a bit more vibration than the Honda so we'll keep and eye on it.
> 
> The folks at Boathouse/Boater's World, the Yamaha dealer on Kent 
> Island, were able to reuse our Honda cockpit controls with the 
> addition of a new shift lever on the motor side so that saved us a 
> bit of money. Everything seems to work well and we (Fred in 
> particular) is really going to enjoy having the electric start. We 
> didn't get a chance to take her out for a spin but we did run it in 
> FN&R in the slip and it certainly seems like it will push us along quite
> well.
> 
> Hope to get a bit more sailing in before the season ends.
> 
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
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