[Rhodes22-list] Blue Loon has finally 'splashed'

[Saroj]

Congrats, Julie and Dan!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Thorndycraft" <julie at circle7.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Blue Loon has finally 'splashed'


>
> In the middle of this terrible weather that we are having in the midwest,
> which seems to alternate between thunderstorms and general downpour, we
> finally got Blue Loon tucked away at her new dock on the Upper Lake (of
Lake
> Minnetonka fame). This means there are now two Rhodes 22's on the Upper
> Lake, the other being Fandango and co-captained by Slim.
>
> We had hoped to have her in the water much earlier but got involved with
> various boat projects.
> 1) Re-wired both bow and stern lights to eliminate their sporadic
response.
> 2) Added two new group 27 AGM batteries which we tied together in
parallel -
> we hope this will ensure that our anchor light will last the entire night
> and still give us enough juice to fire the motor.
> 3) Re-wired the cabling servicing the water pump and everything else that
> was in questionable state - our boat spent it's first five years in
Florida
> and the salt air had taken it's toll. Diagramed everything we could get
to.
> 4) Corrected the wiring for the masthead light so we could take advantage
of
> the 2 lights (2/3 masthead, 1/3 anchor).
> 5) Added a teak magazine rack to hold charts and binoculars.
>
> So now we are ready to sail, if the thunderstorms would stop.....
>
> Julie and Dan
> s/v Blue Loon
> Excelsior, MN
>
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