[Rhodes22-list] Anne & Wally

[Wally Buck]

Brad,

Glad you were able to loosen rudder, it is always nice to save a few bucks. 
By the way, I forgot what kind of boat did you get? What does your boat 
draw? Are you keeping the R22?

I think Chattanooga got the worst of the flooding but then again that is 
historically the case. Before TVA came along Chattanooga used to flood 
frequently. The problem really wasn't just the rain the last two weeks. We 
had about the same amount 6 weeks or so ago. Water levels here were already 
higher than normal spring pool so things were much worse. I know they opened 
the spill gates on all the damns around here. I would think if the spring 
showers are over things will return to normal in a week or so, just a guess.

Your on Pickwick aren't you? ....The couple in the slip next to me are new 
to sailing. Last year they bought an O'Day 222 and wanted something bigger 
with in four months. A couple of weeks ago they wound up buying a Catalina 
30 (1980 something I think) home ported in Pickwick. I don't know the name 
but it has been down your way for a while. Do you know anyone who sold a C30 
lately? Anyway they were in the process of moving the boat up river when all 
this mess started. The boat has been sitting in a marina at Florence for 
almost two weeks now waiitng for the river to calm down. Last I heard all 
the locks on this end were still shut down. They said Pickwick was a nice 
lake.

Sailing Saturday was more like ocean sailing and I had a blast. It was the 
first time we actually got a little soaked while sailing the R22. Between 
the extra strong current, constant whitecaps and the heavy wind the boat was 
really bounced around. We almost broached a couple of times running with 
furled main and genny! There is still a lot of debris floating around but we 
managed to stay clear of every thing. All in all boat and crew handled it 
well. I chickened out Sunday, it was blowing a steady 20 - 30 according to 
local weather guys. Heck I was still worn out from the Saturday joy ride.

Wally


>From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Anne & Wally
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
>
>They must be keeping the water levels high on your
>ends so us good folks in the middle can enjoy our
>lake.  Actually the water level is quite high but all
>the marinas are still dry.  My other boat hit the
>water last Thursday and I motored it from Aqua Marina
>to its new home at the State Park Marina.  The rudder
>was frozen from being on the hard for the winter
>combined with Chesapeake water and Aqua Marine offered
>to haul it for free and fix it while I was out of
>town.  I looked around at all the 50 ft.+ half-million
>dollar boats in the yard and remembered all the
>warnings about them not coming in on budget for
>repairs.  I was able to get access to the rudder post
>from the aft cabin and free it myself, and then
>practiced tacking while docked about a hundred times.
>It may have looked a little strange but it worked and
>was free!  Fan and Cora went with me to the lake
>Saturday and I spent a couple of hours finding
>cubbyholes for everything while a friend of Fan's took
>the helm on the "iron ginny".  I came topsides and saw
>we were in 10 feet of water and realized if it weren't
>for the high water we'd be aground.  Cora had a good
>time exploring every corner of the boat until she hit
>her head but got over that quickly.  Does any one have
>an idea how long its going to take the Corps to get
>the water level back to normal?  Flying in from El
>Paso this morning I could see the Mississippi was
>still in its banks but not by much.  Since I no longer
>live in an Airstream trailer in the river bottom I
>don't pay much attention to the river stage anymore,
>however, the level of "Old Man River" determines how
>much water is released everywhere else.
>
>Brad
>
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