[Rhodes22-list] Newport boat show

[Rick]

Stan,

You've got some 'xplaining to do.  Start with "the first American inside the
Soviet
Space program."

Rick

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Rose says to tell you she put up with this wild man for 60 years because it
> has been so much fun -  maybe because it was not only boat business :   it
> was Madison ave. and show business and night club acts and Tarrytown
> Contemporaries, sewers and all, to the first American inside the Soviet
> Space program and lots of crazier stuff in-between.  She turned out to be
> awfully tolerant for a former Mrs. Virginia (in the ardor of transparency:
> Disqualified at the finals by judge "Somebody Up There Likes Me" Jake
> LaMotta for being too sexy)
>
> ss
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Newport boat show
>
>
> > Stan,
> >
> > I take that as an emphatic "NO" or even "NEVER" as an answer to the
> > burning
> > question.  Why are we forced to learn the basics of mismanagement from
> > their
> > mistakes?
> >
> > I am truly glad to hear that after all the years, it's still fun.  Now,
> > should I ask Rose if she agrees?
> >
> > Mike
> > s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> > Nissequogue River, NY
> >
> >
> > From: "stan" Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:04 PM
> >> Michael,
> >>
> >> A bit of history to show you that we are in this for the fun of it
> >>
> >> We were at the first original Newport Show when it was run by others at
> >> the
> >> fort across the water
> >>
> >> It was eventually taken over by a new group who moved it to downtown
> >> Newport
> >> and we continued going year after year, thru good and lean markets and
> >> ended
> >> up with a fantastic space.  Catalina said "You have a fantastic space"
> >> but
> >> did nothing about it.    Hunter said, "You have a fantastic space" and
> >> went
> >> to management.  Management said Hunter wants your space and we said, so
> >> what
> >> and management showed us what by getting a crane to lift us out of the
> >> water
> >> and dump us in another county at the end of the show.   We have not gone
> >> back since they took the fun out of dealing with them.
> >>
> >> ss
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
> >> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:53 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Newport boat show
> >>
> >>
> >>> In the day, the sailboat shows started at Newport, then down the CT
> >>> coast
> >>> to
> >>> the huge Stamford-in-the-water, then Freeport and on to Annapolis.
>  Most
> >>> manufacturers, at least the big boats, sailed from one to the next.  I
> >>> remember seeing GB at most.
> >>>
> >>> Stan,
> >>>
> >>> Now that I know that you're in business for fun and not the money ("we
> >>> are
> >>> just in this for the fun of it and are trying to keep it going for
> >>> owners
> >>> sake as much as we are trying to keep it going for our pleasure"), the
> >>> burning question is:
> >>>
> >>> Do you want someone to do the Newport show and then sail a Rhodes down
> >>> to
> >>> Annapolis?
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> >>> Nissequogue River, NY
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: "Ron Singerman" Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:07 PM
> >>>> Are there any Rhodes owners who intend to ago to the Newport RI boat
> >>>> show
> >>>> this month?  I will be going and would like to meet up with any Rhodes
> >>>> list people.
> >>>>
> >>>>>>ron<<
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