[Rhodes22-list] Awful quiet on the list.

[Steve Alm]

Wally,

A wood burning hot tub?  Isn't that what the cannibals use? And that reminds
me of a joke:

Cannibals were cooking up a pot of Irish stew, complete with one Irishman
stewing in the pot.  As they were preparing the dish, the cook kept bopping
the Irishman on the head with his spoon.  Another cannibal asked the cook,
"Why do you keep hitting the Irishman?"  The cook replied, "He's eating all
the potatoes."

Slim

On 10/27/03 9:31 AM, "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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