[Rhodes22-list] Miracles launched!

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hey congrats Lou! Very, very good news.

Now enjoy!!!

Mary Lou
on the road again
(posting from Moore Library, Greene, NY)


At 02:56 PM 7/28/2008, you wrote:
>Dear Rhodies,
>
>On Saturday I launched my boat "Miracles" after 4 long years of hard
>work, frustration and fear of not being able to sail this boat.  But
>hard work,  God's help and
>lots of money finally prevailed and she floated and we sailed her
>around Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to Mill Basin where I am
>keeping her in a slip.
>
>Things almost went flawlessly, but my centerboard cap did leak but I
>was able to add a fastener and stop it.   Orbit chewing gum works
>every time! ( along with
>plumber's emergency epoxy)
>
>Some history for those new comers to the list:  I bought this boat
>for $1200.on Aug 9th, 2004  from the second owner who had sailed it
>only sparingly.  I found it with a cabin full  of mildew and leaky
>portlights,  a rusty trailer and an old Merc 7.5 electric start which
>I sold.   This is my first boat and I hadn't bought the Don Casey
>books on how to evaluate a used boat, which was one of my first
>mistakes.    I asked the owner if the centerboard mechanism worked
>and he assured me it did but I might as well have bought the Brooklyn
>Bridge.   It wasn't until almost November that I learned that it was
>stuck inside the trunk due swelling of the trunk walls from water
>that leaked into the trunk through the flange which was also in
>terrible shape.
>
>With the help of Roger Pihlaja, a very patient chemical engineer who
>had posted many things to the owners site and to the list,  I was
>able to spend the next year ripping out the bad laminate and
>replacing it with garolite panels glassed into the the interior trunk
>wall.   There is a pdf file at the owner's site under the
>R22 tech section that details the repair job.
>
>I spent another year re wiring and acquiring new parts and some
>recycled ones from Stan like: the Harken 00 furler, a more current
>rudder head, another bow rail, and the mast crane and crutch system.
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>At times throughout those four years I  felt overwhelmed, frustrated
>and angry at myself for taking this long project on, but felt that
>one day it would all pay off.
>Its also a miracle I'm still married too, because my wife Cindy
>really had to put up with all this s__t way too much for too long!
>
>
>
>I now have to tend to the cabin and put my sliding doors back on add
>my cooler, head and tweak the rigging a bit then give her the tiller
>as we bend sail for the first time!
>
>Thanks to all the Rhodes owners especially:
>
>Roger Pihlaja
>Rick Centalonza
>Stan  and Elton
>Mary Lou
>Michael Weisner
>
>Richard Smith
>Rummy
>Ed K
>Peter Thorn
>Hank
>and Bill Effros
>and anyone else I may have left out!
>
>peace
>Lou
>
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