[Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.

[Wally Buck]

Now I am really glad I don't have to pull my boat for the winter. We are 
having some great sailing weather. This last week end we spent in the 
mountains at a friends cabin. His whole cabin runs on 12 volt system powered 
by solar panels. He has 2 6-volt Trojan batteries. Great views and colors 
are almost peak. He also has a wood buring hot tub.

The first weekend I haven't gone sailing in almost 4 months!

Wally

>From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:20:19 -0600
>
>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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