[Rhodes22-list] The Great Road Trip

[Ronald Lipton]

Best of luck on the trip and with your new boat.  Be sure to bring a 
heavy
duty tie down strap. One of my (many) mistakes in bringing my boat from
the East coast was to use cheap wussy straps. Air wasn't a problem - 
there
are lots of gas stations with good facilities on the interstates.  Having
the trailer fall apart slowly on the road kept the ride interesting.

It will be interesting to hear how the new main performs.
I am still probably two weeks from launching. I still need
to paint the bottom and do some odds and ends this weekend.

Ron (mister?) Lipton
Empress of Blandings
Michigan City, Indiana

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:13 PM, Julie Thorndycraft 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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