[Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.

[Saroj]

Oh, slim.  What a nightmare!  And I thought I had a rough day yesterday
doing my measly errands: cart taken by someone else at Walmart; no chains
out on display at Ace; didn't realize about the time change so had to kill
45 minutes at CVS; blah, blah, blah.  That was like getting a birthday cake
compared to your ordeal.  Only thing worse for me was taking my boat out in
a snow/sleet storm in Chicago on December 10th 3 years ago.  If my husband
and I hadn't already decided to divorce, that little endeavor would have
been the deciding factor.

And here I am in the "more or less" South trying to figure out how to get my
boat BACK into the water after the hurricane.

Saroj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Alm" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.


> Rummy,
>
> Good call. That's exactly what I was doing today--hauling out the fleet:
> The Rhodes, the pontoon, Prindle cat, Lazar, a fishing boat and the dock.
>
> The day was cursed from the beginning.  Everything that could go wrong,
did.
> First, I got up at the crack of noon (you know I'm not a morning person)
> only to discover that my Rhodes trailer had been towed away from the front
> of my house.  Apparently, there's an ordinance about "unattended" trailers
> that I was unaware of.  I know, I know, ignorance of the law is no excuse,
> but shit, man, it was towed YESTERDAY--the day before I needed it.  It's
> been parked there for two months. I guess this is the "fall clean-up."
Two
> hours and $187 later, after getting lost looking for the damn impound lot,
I
> arrived at the lake.
>
> First, we took out the pontoon with a rented trailer.  It's an easy job
but
> the boat ramp was crowded and I had to wait in line for 45 minutes.  I
hate
> Sundays on lake Minnetonka!
>
> Then we went for the Rhodes and took down the mast at the dock.  Missing
> tools and hardware made that a full hour job.  By now, we were losing our
> daylight and we only had one boat out.  We took a very chilly boat ride to
> the ramp (last Sunday, it was warm and beautiful, but no wind for sailing)
> and by the time we got there it was dark.  I'm a pretty good
trailer-backer,
> but in the dark, it's a struggle.  I have the typical musician's van with
no
> rear or side windows (shaggin' wagon) and I had a terrible time seeing
what
> I was doing.  We finally got the boat on the trailer, and as we were
pulling
> out, I discovered that I had not shut off the motor!  So, I'm panicking
> because it's out of the water, and I make an olympic gymnastics move from
> the driver's seat, through the back of the van and out the rear doors,
> tight-roped across the tongue (extended) and flipped myself onto the bow
and
> tumbled back to the cockpit to kill the motor.  It was then that I
> discovered that not one, but BOTH up-haul AND down-haul rudder lines had
> just broke and we were dragging the rudder on the cement.  As I struggled
to
> get the rudder up, of course, it came out of the gudgeons and fell in the
> water.  Christ Almighty!  Why have You forsaken me?
>
> After recovering the tiller/rudder, we pulled the boat out of the water
and
> towed it home with the four-way flashers on the whole way because the
night
> lights on the trailer didn't work.
>
> So now we're pulling the boat back to Judi's (our co-owner) yard and
backing
> it into place, (and struggling in the dark, with much shouting and
> everybody's in a bad mood by now) and her neighbor comes out and starts
> bitching about where the boat is being stored--too close to their house.
>
> So now we have this big argument with the neighbor.  JUST SHOOT ME!  The
> rest of the boats and the dock are still in the water and it's going to
snow
> this week.
>
> And the Vikings lost!!!
>
> F**k me,
> Slim
>
> On 10/26/03 6:45 AM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been scratching my increasingly balding head trying to figure out
why
> > the list has been so quiet. I finally figured it out this morning. All
our
> > northern sailing friends are either scrambling to take their boats out
for the
> > season or they already have them on the hard.
> > I guess it's just up to us southerners to keep the chatter alive.
> > Ed, I hear that Yankee Clippers auto-pilot should be installed this
weekend.
> >
> > Rummy
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