[Rhodes22-list] Captain of the Metaphor - Happy New Year

[TN Rhodey]

Mike, My local fleet had me at 270. This was IMF no spin. I had my ups and
downs and generally raced solo. For my fleet this rating seemd ok. I
typically could finish in the top 3.
Fair winds,

Wally
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:

>
>
> "Mike,  Do you plan to race your R22?
> Wally"
>
> Wally -- No. I just want to sail it aimlessly for a while, maybe spend a
> week or more just wandering around the Chesapeake this summer by myself.
> Just out of curiosity, do you know what its PHRF rating might be?
>
> -------
> "Hmmm, mwager...  I used to have a neighbor from the Chicago area
> named Brian Wager.  He moved to GA and worked with me at Coke.  Might
> be in Florida now, not sure, we lost touch.  Any relation?
> Cheers!
> John Lock"
>
> John--No relation that I know of.  My family is from western PA and I grew
> up in Upstate NY.  How did he pronounce his last name?  (WaGer or Wajer?)
> ------
> "We do hope you are able to find time for Metaphor in and amongst all
> those racing commitments. Will getting the Pearson ready take time as
> well as money?
>
> We love the Choptank and Little Choptank though we generally get down
> that far only once a year. We've been to Dun's Cove but never as far
> as Harris. It's nearly a full day for us to Knapp's. The Little
> Choptank is a favorite as are LaTrappe and the Tred Avon. The Miles
> is a little closer and we tend do that once a year as well. It's
> often been just a trip to St. Michael's and back but I really like
> the Wye and would like explore some of the other places off ther
> Miles as well. Last year we (some of the Chesapeake Rhodies) talked
> about a possible Rhodes Rhendezvous in Tilghman Creek off the Miles
> but planning kind of petered out. We didn't do nearly as much sailing
> as we would have liked last year - hoping that this coming season
> will be better.
> Mary Lou"
>
> Mary Lou--A crew mate bought the boat at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
> auction this fall for a steal.  It needs some work, but not much, new sails
> and lines, bottom paint and elbow grease, and will kept at Tilghman Creek,
> where the other boats I sail (sailed) are kept.  You have the opposite
> problem from mine-- Harris Creek feeds out to the Choptank, so I can head
> south easily, but to get to Kent Narrows is much more more time consuming.
> (If you were at Dun's Cove, you were maybe 3/4 mile from my home.)
>
> Racing is what spurred my recent re-interest in this forum. Honestly I'm
> getting a bit tired of the repetitiveness of the racing courses.  The
> people
> I sail with are great friends, but the Miles River has become a bit
> constricted for the last couple of years. I want to wander a bit.
>
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