[Rhodes22-list] Splash!

[svtriton at aol.com]

congrats...saw the boat in your driveway all ready to go and was wondering what was going on....im suppose to go in today...happy sailing
tom

 

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 1:53 am
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Splash!


We finally launched yesterday morning. We were already to go last 

week. Got to the ramp. Everything was going smoothly. Had the mast 

ready to raise when I hear an "Uh-oh" from the bow. Fred had noticed 

a small bolt on the foredeck and knew exactly what it was - the bolt 

that keeps the forestay from sliding up inside the Schaeffer furler. 

Guess where the forestay was. It's not a hard fix. You get out your 

Allen wrench...... oops. No Allen wrench in the toolkit. There's one 

at home 3 miles away. We looked at each other and calculated the time 

to unhitch the truck go home and get the Allen wrench, come back and 

hitch up again vs. the time to put the mast back on the bow pulpit 

and drive home with the boat to fix the furler. Either way it was 

going to be hot and we would miss the optimum tide for launch. We 

drove home. Weather, tides and our schedules conspired to postpone 

launch until yesterday. We were a little concerned that the south 

winds would push the tide too high at the ramp but it was already 

going down by the time we got over there. Easy mast raising and 

launch. Motor started and ran smoothly. It's about a 15 minute motor 

from the ramp to the marina. No problems docking even with a strong 

breeze. Not a bad start to the season.



Best,

Mary Lou

1991 R22 Fretless



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