[Rhodes22-list] Wally, Pop Top Cover and Fee

Thu Aug 18 10:04:23 EDT 2005

Wally,
	What we are calling brokerage fees might more appropriately called
finders or referral fee.  A broker usually has control over the item and
usually is involved with active promotion of the product, i.e., advertising,
signage, brochures, et al. 
	As I recall, Stan usually has several used Pop Top covers.  While he
has them earmarked for potential recycled boats, he is known to part with
them.  Both you and Chris might inquire if he has any used Boom Rooms.
	You have the advantage in both situations.  You could go by Edenton
on your way to the outer banks.  Just past the plant is a bridge that takes
you back to U.S. 64, so that you would not have to go the Northern (busy)
access to the outer banks.
	One thing to be pointed out is that Stan does not recycle older
boats.  I think that the lady calling and emailing him with questions during
the work day about a 30 year old boat aggravated the situation.  The only
person available to answer technical questions in English at General Boats
is Stan.  Maybe he should require all questions about older boats to be in
Romanian or Spanish.  That way he would not have to stop what he is doing.
	I sit here wondering if our minister Rhodie has called the lady with
the falling keel?  There is no word from Alan. 
	The discussion of the Boom Room came from John.  When I saw the
question, I wondered if he looked at the pictures on this web site or
bothered to look at the GBI site.  Mary Lou and Bill were overly gracious in
their replies. 

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
Addendum:  "One of the keepers at Cape Romain Lighthouse was a Norwegian
named Fischer.  He loved the desolate isle and his duties as keeper, but,
unfortunately, his wife did not share his enthusiasm for their new life
style.  She was miserable and homesick for her native Norway, her family,
and her friends.  She begged her husband to let her make an extended visit
to Norway, but he refused.  The couple quarreled frequently about the issue
until she told him she was going.  Fisher was so enraged that his wife would
not accept the word of her husband as "law" that he stabbed her to death
with a kitchen knife." P 105, Lighthouses of South Carolina

-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Wally Buck
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 7:19 AM
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Subject: Re: @CHECK Re: [Rhodes22-list] boom room

I might be interested in pop top enclosure.

Wally

>From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: @CHECK   Re: [Rhodes22-list] boom room
>Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:07:10 -0400
>
>Chris,
>
>I'm with you.  Ed notwithstanding, if enough people place orders Stan will 
>work out some more wrinkles.  I do plan to order, and will work with you, 
>Stan, and anyone else who wants to play.
>
>Bill Effros
>
>Chris Geankoplis wrote:
>
>>Hey Bill,
>>            Maybe Stan will give us a volume Discount as the Boomroom is
>>supposed to be my Christmass present.  Let me know so we can co-ordinate 
>>our
>>orders.  Anyone out there who is thinking about a boomroom or Poptop
>>enclosure let us know, it is always cheaper to manufacture and purchase in
>>volume, right Stan?
>>Chris Geankoplis
>>S/V Enosis
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
>>To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:05 AM
>>Subject: @CHECK Re: [Rhodes22-list] boom room
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>The pop-top enclosure is different from the Boom Room.  The Pop-Top
>>>enclosure is an elegant addition to the boat.  Many people have them,
>>>and everyone raves about them.
>>>
>>>The Boom-Room is still in the prototype stage.  Many people have them,
>>>but most are different.  The concept is elegant, but Stan has not been
>>>satisfied with his engineering to date.  He feels there is too much
>>>stuff required to hold it up compared to the number of uses you are
>>>likely to get from actually deploying it.
>>>
>>>On my Pop-Top Enclosure there is a Velcro strip at the stern end where
>>>the Pop-Top enclosure is supposed to attach to the Boom Room enclosure.
>>>
>>>I have attached pictures of Slim's Boom Room and Roger's Boom Room.
>>>Both are different from Stan's Boom Room.  I believe Stan now makes them
>>>differently from the way it is shown on his web site.
>>>
>>>I plan to get a Boom Room this winter (Ed, I'll need it for the Keys)
>>>and that will force Stan to think about it again.  Like Mary Lou, I use
>>>my Pop-Top Enclosure all the time, and just love it.  It coverts the
>>>cabin into a nicer stateroom than I have slept in in much larger boats.
>>>
>>>The only problem with the Pop-Top enclosure is that when you are using
>>>the cabin to sleep in, you can't use if for much else.  I anticipate
>>>that adding the Boom Room will be like adding a bedroom to my house.
>>>
>>>Bill Effros
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>john steadham wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Does the boom room cover the poptop or is that a different item? Does
>>>>anybody have pictures of the r22 with the boom room up?
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>>>Name: Slim's Boom Room.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 85243 bytes Desc: not
>>>
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>>available
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>>>Url:
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>>http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200508/17/SlimsBoomR
oom.jpg
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>>>Name: Roger's Boom Room.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 1854402 bytes Desc: 
>>>not
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>>available
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>>>Url:
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>>http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attch/200508/17/RogersBoom
Room.jpg
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