[Rhodes22-list] SARS Update

[brad haslett]

Ed,

The short version of a long story is that the S2 is
leaving Maryland Marina via truck on Thursday and will
arrive at Pickwick Dam, TN on Friday.  A lot of folks
wanted to participate in moving her on her own bottom,
but, no one could really make a timely commitment.  I
picked the brain of a co-worker who owns a 43'
Beneteau and trucked his boat from Pickwick to the
Chesapeake with the idea of sailing her back to  home
port over the summer.  Several weeks and thousands of
dollars later he arrived in Florida where he left the
boat.  Not a bad idea but I really don't have the time
just now and I want the boat here.  Down the road I'd
like to motor down the Tenn-Tom to the Gulf and do the
trip in reverse with some diversions along the way.  I
shot-gunned some bid requests over the internet to
truck her home and got a bid from a guy who was
picking up a boat at Pickwick to move to Chicago and
he gave me a really good price.  It was my intention
to move her to Anne's lake (KY) for re-rigging, but,
the price was a good bit cheaper to my home port and
the driver is a sailboat owner, licensed captain, and
experienced rigger.  He can't move boats over the
weekend so he's re-rigging my boat during his
downtime.
Complicating the scheduling and my own time
commitments was our trip to China which is now
posponed indefinitely.  Throw in to the mix that we're
short on pilots in my seat position and moving
vacation slots around is not as easy right now as it
sometimes is, and well, my new baby is going on a
truck and that's that.  We bought another apartment in
Beijing (we'll rent our other one) and its under
construction now.  We really wanted to be more
pro-active in choosing the finish materials on this
one but Fan's sister is e-mailing us photos and
through the internet, we're involved as much as
possible.  Remember the old German side-car
motorcycles from WW2 movies?  They were made by BMW
and the factory ended up in Soviet hands.  They moved
the whole factory to the Ural mountains and then
traded it to the Chinese in the 50's.  They still
build them, exactly as they were in 1936.  My best
friend and I are importing a whole container of them
and I really need to get to Beijing to supervise them
going on the ship.  That's been postponed as well. 
We're sponsoring the daughter of one of Fan's college
buddies to live with us and attend her junior year of
high school here.  That may be at risk as well.  This
SARS thing has really turned the Asian world upside
down.  We'll just have to ride this thing out through
the summer on our new boat.  Life sucks!

Brad
--- Kroposki <kroposki at innova.net> wrote:
> Brad, 
> 	Any more details how you will get the boat to the
> "Mid West"?
>                                    Ed K
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of brad haslett
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 4:59 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] SARS Update
> 
> We postponed our annual trip to China for obvious
> reasons.  I fed Fan daily with more bad news but her
> parents in China followed the party line (read the
> newspapers) until it was too overwhelming to ignore.
> 
> Then the truth came out. Now, Beijing has a 911 type
> phone number, 120, that you can call if you have
> SARS
> symptoms and need transportation to a treatment
> center.  During Fan's last weekly phone conversation
> with her sister and parents the following story was
> told. My sister-in-law has a three year old daughter
> who is about the sharpest kid I ever met (smarter
> than
> my own). She ran a slight fever a few days ago and
> her
> parents and grand-parents were quite alarmed.  This
> is
> how the conversation went (paraphrased from Mandarin
> to English).
> 
> Ran Ran, do you feel bad?
> 
> No, I feel fine.
> 
> But you have a temperature, does your head hurt?
> 
> No, I feel fine.
> 
> Does your stomach hurt?
> 
> No, Mom, I feel fine!
> 
> You don't hurt anywhere?
> 
> No, I feel fine!  Whatever you do, don't call 120!
> 
> We think we'll stay here until the dust settles on
> this issue.
> 
> Brad 
> 
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