[Rhodes22-list] mini Rhodes fleet action .....

[Leland]

Mike,

Nice picture of Rick's boat.  How windy was it?

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  At Ease
Kent Island, MD
  

Rick-139 wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> I was good to meet you and both of your Muireanns.  The weather next week
> looks great for a cruise to the Islands.  Have fun.
> 
> Rick
> 
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Mike Cheung <mikecheung at att.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Got Muireann out for her shakedown yesterday (part of plan B for the end
>> of
>> semester sailing trip ...) and things went fairly well.  We trailered
>> from
>> home just north of Akron to the Edgewater ramps in Cleveland Harbor.  Got
>> Muireann rigged.  We're trying some new tricks to speed up rigging a
>> little.
>> We left the side stays and aft stays rigged and taped and just coiled
>> them
>> separately.  Also the lower stays were not coiled, but rather were
>> gathered
>> up along the mast and tied off along with the genoa/forestay and boom.
>>  This
>> seemed to save time though we aren't ready for a 'clock & board' exercise
>> just yet.  Found that we managed to lose the fiddle block stirrup over
>> the
>> winter.  We probably lost it the very last time we rigged Muireann for
>> trailer last October after visiting Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie
>> (coincidentally
>> the second part of plan B should have us there again tomorrow or Monday.
>> Until we replaced the stirrup later yesterday afternoon (thanks to the
>> skipper of Blue Heron!, more on that later), we jury rigged (what a
>> polite
>> phase that is ....) the connection between the fiddle block and the boom
>> end
>> with a little cordage.  It worked well enough to get us out into the
>> lake.
>>
>> While cruising outside the breakwall, we heard a call for "Rhodes 22" on
>> channel 16.  My admiral answered and discovered that Blue Heron was
>> hailing
>> us from about two miles further offshore.  We sailed north, Blue Heron
>> sailed south, and a mini Rhodes rendezvous was in the making.
>>
>> Here's a shot of Blue Heron crossing Muireann's bows ....
>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23572871/Copy%2Bof%2BPICT0018.jpeg
>>
>> After soon maneuvering, Muireann accompanied Blue Heron home and Rick
>> (Blue
>> Heron's skipper) was kind enough to give me a ride over to Sailing Inc.
>> to
>> replace the lost stirrup.  Miraculously they had it and on the boating
>> cost
>> scale it may as well have been free.  Muireann's fiddle block is whole
>> again.
>>
>> After visiting with Rick for a bit, my Admiral and I set off for our
>> launch
>> point, which was at the other (western) end of Cleveland Harbor from Blue
>> Heron's home.  The wind was with us and we sailed wing-in-wing with the
>> nifty new Forespar pole making it seem ridiculously easy.
>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23572871/Copy%2Bof%2BPICT0024.jpeg
>>
>> All-in-all a good shakedown.
>>
>> Today is scheduled under plan B to be a work day to do a few things on
>> Muireann then we're off to the Lake Erie Islands tomorrow for a short, 4
>> day
>> cruise.  We're not planning on a visit to Canada, but we've stowed a
>> quarantine flag and a Canadian courtesy flag on board and will rig a flag
>> halyard on our starboard spreader arm, just in case.
>>
>> Mike Cheung, s/v Muireann
>>
>>
>>
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