[Rhodes22-list] The Great Road Trip

Steve Alm salm at mn.rr.com
Wed Apr 23 02:17:09 EDT 2003


Dan and Julie,

Best of luck on the trip.  See ya when you get home.

Slim

On 4/22/03 10:13 PM, "Julie Thorndycraft" <julie at circle7.net> wrote:

> First off I'd like to thank everyone for the great information they have
> shared - it has been very helpful as we've been going through the process
> with Stan regarding our newly recycled Rhodes.
> 
> The time is now finely here and on Friday we head south. With a few stops
> along the way, will arrive in Edenton on Tuesday the 29th. If the weather
> cooperates, we plan to do a couple of test sails to make sure everything is
> in order and head back to Minnesota on Thursday. With any luck, she (Blue
> Loon) will land in Lake Minnetonka on May 4th - one day before I start a new
> job. This is turning out to be a very 'good' spring!
> 
> Besides calling Lake Minnetonka home, we will be sailing on Lake Vermilion
> in early June (Mr. Lipton - we'll be a mile away from the underground mine),
> spending a week along the North shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, and
> sailing Lake Gogebic in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan over Labor Day
> weekend. I would hope that by the end of the summer we will be pretty good
> at raising/dropping the mast and getting the boat tied down securely for
> road trips.
> 
> Again, thank you all for the great information!
> 
> Julie Thorndycraft and Daniel DeWeese
> Soon to be owners of 'Blue Loon'
> Excelsior, MN
> 
> P.S. Rumor has it that we will be getting a main sail with a funny 'new'
> design..... : )
> 
> 
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