[Rhodes22-list] baltimore harbor lighted boat parade

[Mary Lou Troy]

Well that's wonderful Tom. Congratulations! Sounds like a lot of fun. Now you did have someone on shore taking pictures, right?

Mary Lou

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> From: SVTRITON at aol.com
> Date: 2004/12/08 Wed AM 11:25:29 EST
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] baltimore harbor lighted boat parade
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> hi all
> this past weekend triton participated in the 17th annual baltimore harbor 
> boat parade..we were scheduled to participate last yr but snow kept us out...this 
> was our first parade and we were the last boat in the parade except for a 
> huge harbor tug which was behind us...our crew were fellow rhodies don and 
> jeannie clark and jim and rosemarie harrison and my better half linda...our theme 
> was "wheres rudolph"...don clark aka santa  was on the bow with a search 
> light..the ladies..dressed in elf costumes were in the center of the boat throwing 
> candy at the kids (im waiting for the lawsuits)..jim harrison was in charge of 
> the dighy which held rudolph..a lighted deer shaking his head no, adorned with 
> a red strobe light of course..and i was at the helm....we were powered by a 
> 900 watt generator that sat under the tiller in the cockpit...we had a string of 
> 150 colored lights going up the forestay and another string going down the 
> backstay with another string going down the mast and another going across the 
> boom..also we had two sets of white icicle lights on each side of the boat and a 
> wreath at the bow and one at the base of the mast...also rudolph had 300 
> white lights.....we had a preliminary run the day before and all worked 
> well....last saturday night we started out in one of two circles one in fells point the 
> other in the inner harbor..all went well as we lined up...no lights were 
> on....then the parade started and we were given the go ahead to light up which we 
> did..carefully adding one load at a time....things went well for about 15 
> minutes and then the generator popped a fuse...of course it was overloaded...when i 
> had originally done my computations for a 900 watt generator i was going to 
> use 7 amps of current..unfortunately we got so carried away that the generator 
> was holding up  i was up to about 18 amps...anyway..we started disconnecting 
> lights but it was not enough..the lights would go out..then pop back on for a 
> few minutes then go out again....to make a long story short as we approached 
> the judges boat the lights miraculously came on and after we passed them they 
> popped out again ...we were so bummed that we went back to our dock, drank rum 
> and didnt go to the after sail party....yesterday i found out we took 2nd place 
> in the smaller boat category (35 and under)...thanks to a great crew and a 
> great boat....so we got an early christmas gift this year....next year well get 
> a bigger generator
> best
> tom
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