[Rhodes22-list] A Boat Story (jpeg photos)

[Michael D. Weisner]

Reposted using standard jpegs

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] A Boat Story
>
>
>
> Earlier this year, three children of an octogenarian boat building parents
> decided they would get their parents a gift.  The gift was intended to
> take
> their parents for a trip to the islands this winter.
>
>
> While their father loved sailboats, they concluded that it would be better
> for them to have an appropriate motor vessel.  They were to take delivery
> and sail it to a marina near their parents' home on the coast.
>
>
> Here is what they ordered:  65' - Custom built motor yacht complete with
> staterooms, a state of the art galley, G.P.S. system and radar for
> navigation, twin supercharged diesel engines, etc.....  $2.5 million.
>
> And see the picture of the boat on delivery day:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B1.bmp Boat+1.bmp
>
>
> The day was here and they were on the dock at a booth prepared by the boat
> company.  Champagne, chocolate covered strawberries with cream, and music
> dockside for the excited "soon to be owners" and a small group of
> friends......  costing over $500.00
>
> Two corporate representatives, crane and rigging complete with faulty
> turnbuckle.....  $2,500 / hour
>
> And see the picture:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B2.bmp Boat+2.bmp
>
>
> Watching your dreamboat nose dive into the harbor, accompanied by two
> corporate representatives just prior to "inking" the final paperwork . . .
> .
> . . Note the guy in the Stern!
>
> And see the picture:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p13118030/Boat%2B3.bmp Boat+3.bmp
>
> One brother said, “I told them "Just forget the whole deal,  I didn't like
> the color anyway!”
>
> The daughter, who knows a thing or two about her father’s sailboats,
> turned
> and said, “
> Dad’s boats are self righting.”
>
>
> Posted by
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
>
>
> -- 
> View this message in context:
> http://www.nabble.com/A-Boat-Story-tf4594959.html#a13118030
> Sent from the Rhodes 22 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Boat+1.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 37456 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20071009/91d0befc/attachment.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Boat+2.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 98271 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20071009/91d0befc/attachment-0001.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Boat+3.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 68639 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20071009/91d0befc/attachment-0002.jpg