[Rhodes22-list]David and Rose

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Anne:  Rik and Sandy haven't "pulled the plug" yet, have they?  (can't say 
that I'd blame them........the weather today is cold & 
dreary-----cloudy......and no sun in sight!)     Thought of you this 
weekend.......Mary





At 06:31 AM 10/26/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Rose,
>  Ed was right. I was racing all weekend.
>We had our 50 miler fall race and naturally, it
>poured ALL day. Beating up wind in a light boat is
>alot of work for soaked folks. One of our crew bailed
>so we were lucky enough to get a wonderful young
>sailor, Kit, 13 yo. Her folks have a big 40 ft cruising
>boat. She wants to race so she held tough with us and never
>complained once. I can tell you that we adults cried a few!!
>We were pleased to give Kit the trophy, 3rd place only. The 35 and
>36 footers beat us, for they can handle those waves better.
>We lost our spinnaker halyard. A 35 foot Hughes went aground while
>I watched! A 19 foot mariner took first in the Jam B fleet and he
>went aground twice! (the dam lets the water down quite far and we go
>far down the river where it does tend to be shallow. Then the bays
>and creeks make silt 'dams' out in the middle of the lake! We saw
>3.9 ft on our depth guage!!
>Thank goodness it was not cold as well!
>We have many out of towners who come here to Kentucky
>Lake for these long distance races, so it was "old Home
>week" with much eating and drinking and very tall stories!
>I am race chairman so had to get the stuff set up, etc.
>At this time I am hosting a couple who have sold everything and are prepping
>their boat for cruising permanently. They are sleeping here while their boat
>is on the hard.
>Did I mention that I work?
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>Rose,
>Where do you live? I sail on my Rhodes all winter because we get enough
>cycles of decent weather to do so tolerably. I do my bottom work in
>September.
>You should come and have a big ride. I have plenty of room for company.
>Our marina is sailboats only and our lake is huge. This means that folks
>from
>4 hours away have large boats (27-46ft is usual). The waiting list for slips
>is very long. While I have never really considered a different boat, I would
>never want to have to move out of this marina. The Rhodes works for me.
>I sail by myself 60% of the time. Most of my friends have their own boats so
>are working on them or are going to meet me in a cove. I have a wild
>schedule and
>if I want to go sailing, it is so little prep work, that I sail MUCH more
>often
>that most. The couple who are staying with me do not know me really well,
>for they
>have been on a different pier. However, they said that they always felt that
>I knew
>more what I was doing than most the guys with large boats. (really?)
>I sailed with my dad a bit then raced in the 80s on J-24's. When I bought my
>Rhodes
>I have not been on a sailboat for over 12 years. I took the ASA course here
>on the
>KY lake to brush off the cobwebs. Plus, I had never steered! You know how
>that goes!
>I rehearsed backing out of my slip over and over in my mind for weeks before
>the
>boat was delievered by Stan and Elton. I got in and out very nicely (thank
>you very much)
>from day 1. The sailing things come with a lesson from one mistake or the
>other. I
>will often forget some detail I prefer to have done before I let the sails
>out when I
>am alone. However, nothing is impossible on this boat. YOu will have a great
>time.
>Anne
>KY Lake
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