[Rhodes22-list] centerboard transfer -- was sherriff....

[ben]

That's a funny story too.  I was sure that my boat was a couple years 
before the diamond board were being installed.  I was doing a lot of 
work in Rocky Mount, so one night, Stan left me a centerboard on his 
loading dock, and I left him a check in the mail slot.  Got back to 
Rocky Mount really late at night but happy with my purchase.  Of course, 
it turns out that I really needed the diamond board.

I shipped my incorrect board back to Stan, and he shipped me a new 
diamond board.  And UPS lost the return shipment.  You look at the 
tracking info, and it's scanned once in Edenton, scanned again in 
Raleigh, then nothing.  I would love to know who has a Rhodes 22 
centerboard, and what they could possibly want with it.

So I repeated the Edenton run on my next trip to Rocky Mount.  This 
time, I headed out in the dark before dawn.  I got to the factory as 
they were pouring morning coffee, spent 10 minutes there (Stan claims 
that this is the record for shortest customer visit to their plant), and 
then hauled ass to Raleigh in order to catch my noon flight home.  This 
time, the airline refused to let me slide on my oversize/overweight 
checked bag fee, and they really reamed me good.  But it all turned out 
well.




Lou Rosenberg wrote:
> Ben
>
> Good luck with the rebuilt boat!
> did you lose a diamond board or the older standard fin like I have?
> ***
> I am in the process of stripping all my bottom paint and gelcoat due  
> to boatpox.
> Just took possession of a 3 gal air compressor yesterday from  
> Harborfreight.com
> and awaiting a full 3M face mask to help me grind more efficiently  
> and carefully.
>
> This is one of the toughest jobs ever.  I would not recommend doing  
> it unless you have the time, which of course I don't
> but do have the space and the patience.
>
> The plan is to replace the bad gelcoat with 12 layers of barrier coat  
> then a hard bottom paint.
>
> Lou
> "Miracles"