[Rhodes22-list] Memorial Day Oregon Sail

[Chris Geankoplis]

Took the boat up to Klamath lake (elv 4100 ft)  6-7 miles wide, including
the attached Agency lake, 22 miles long.   The lake is surrrounded by snow
capped, fir and aspen clad mountains to the west and to the north a mass of
jagged white peaks where Crater Lake is located.  A great day to sail,
10-15kn, a cool 60 degrees and flat water.  Spent the day out in the lake or
tacking around in the channels among reeds and water lillies with beautiful
yellow flowers ready to burst into bloom in a week. Stopped in at a '50's
style resort and had a fine lunch and some local brew.  With one more week
of crazey 8th graders to teach this helped restore my sanity.  The only down
side to Klamath lake is that by the end of June the shallow lake becomes a
soup of Blue-Green alge (cures everything including old age  if taken in
special pill form) and masses, clouds, whirling cyclones of stinking bugs.
But for now it is beautiful.

Left the boat up there so I don't have to haul it back over the Cascades and
will go up for an overnighter with my wife tomorrow.  Not quite the
Chesapeake but it will do for now.

Chris Geankoplis
SV Passion
-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Thorndycraft <julie at circle7.net>
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Memorial Day Plans


>
>Rummy,
>We have the battened mainsail and it came with two fiberglass rods - one
was
>long and was inserted into the pocket as the batten. One was short and was
>to be used to help push the pocket for the long batten into the slot. Of
>course, the first time I got to sail last summer was an extremely gusty day
>and the batten flew out into the lake - we obviously hadn't gotten it in
>correctly. We replaced it with a fiberglass rod of about the same size.
When
>we launch this year, we plan on leaving it in for the season. We also have
>an extra in case we loose this one.
>Julie
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
>To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Memorial Day Plans
>
>
>> Roger,
>> To bad about your weather. You can have some of the 90 degree heat we've
>> got. We haven't had any significant rain in over two weeks.
>> The Old Town canoes we had were the wooden framed jobs with a painted
>canvas
>> over the frame. Considered heavy to the Grumman aluminum canoes,  tippy,
>but
>> very, very fast. I always took the speed over the stability of  the
>aluminum.
>> Portaging a mile or so it didn't seem to make much difference with  the
>yolk.
>> We had three people to a canoe and two packs. One with the large old
>canvas
>> tents and our sleeping bags and personal stuff and the other with  the
>cook
>> utensils and food. I always took the canoe over the cook pack.
>> We changed out the main sail on Rum Runner this morning. Two hours from
>> start to finish. My hat is off to GB for making the sails replaceable
>(went from
>> Lee to Doyle) without changing so much as a screw hole. Good job Stan.
>Anyone
>> know what the extra fiberglass rod is for?
>> The wind didn't cooperate today, so I haven't had a chance to sail it
yet.
>I
>> will let you know how it goes when the wind blows.
>> Rummy
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