[Rhodes22-list] Sailing, and animals
benonvelvetelvis at theskinnyonbenny.com
benonvelvetelvis at theskinnyonbenny.com
Wed Mar 2 15:50:15 EST 2005
So how was the sail, Jim?
I didn't mention why I'm stuck (even more so than usual): I work with
a team of 8 people. I've got three teammates in Hawaii this week
implementing a new system there, and two more in St. Thomas for a
customer service visit. That leaves three of us in the office trying
to keep up with 8 people's work. Needless to say, they owe us. Big.
On another topic, I was in the waiting room at the LSU vet school
yesterday. (LSU has one of the best veternary schools in the country,
and my first mate is in poor shape, unfortuneately). While I was
waiting, a WLF agent comes in with a large brown pelican in a
cardboard box. The poor thing had taken a BB or shotgun pellet in the
neck near a town a couple of hours from Baton Rouge.
It turns out that they have a whole group of doctors (and students
working under them) that deal with birds and exotic animals. They
also have some really cool technologies to help animals recover --
hyper oxygenated cages, pools to help exercise dogs with joint
problems, and pathology labs and specialists like a human
hospital. It was pretty cool.
I asked one of the doctors, and it turns out that the pelican just had
a flesh wound. He (or she, who can tell?) was expected to recover and
be re-released.
Now, back to the grind.
Ben
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:02 , Jim White <jdwhite at utpa.edu> sent:
Hey Ben
It's 78 degrees here, the wind is SSE at 8 to 15, slightly overcast
and on
my way back from lunch there were several other sailors out... Oh
boy, I
feel a drinking/sailing afternoon coming on.
Remember: you never get time wasted to waste again!
jw
Jim White
Le Menagerie
(....getting ready to cast off....)
At 01:32 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>Heck Hank, it's to confuse all of the non-sailers. Even the
earliest
>sailers in
>history knew that it would be more fun to get on the boat, get
liquored
>up, and
>make fun of the landlubbers confusion than if the names were
things like
>"front
>part" or "hypotenuse" instead of "luff" and "leech".
>
>Bob - the close up photo of you sailing in the ski hat and goggles
is
>priceless.
> Stan needs to get that on the GB site. How about a heading like,
"Is
> the Rhodes
>22 that Much Fun to Sail, or Are Our Clients Crazy?"
>
>BTW, I'm stuck behind a desk on a sunny, 13 knot, 61 degree
afternoon.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben
>
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:17 , Hank <[1]hnw555 at gmail.com> sent:
>
> >One thing I've never understood. If the back part of the sail is
> >called the Leech, why is it called luffing when it starts to
flap? or
> >am I just confused?
> >
> >Hank
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:18:25 -0500, ed kroposki
[2]ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> >> Look at the pictures from Yankee Clipper and Rum Runner
sailing on Sunday.
> >> I have a question on sail adjustment. Looking at the leach of
the
> main, is
> >> it correct or most efficient to have it that loose?
> >>
> >> Ed K
> >> Greenville, SC, USA
> >> Addendum: Instructions that say low maintenance really mean
impossible to
> >> fix.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [3]rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >>
>[[4]rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org','','','')">[5]rhodes22-lis
t-bounces at rhodes22.org]
>On Behalf Of Steve Alm
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:07 PM
> >> To: Rhodes
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sunday Sailing
> >>
> >> Well shucks, Rummy's rails aren't even close to the water.
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 3/1/05 6:54 AM, "Bob Keller"
[6]r22yankeeclipper at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Today is March 1 and I am looking out the window in Atlanta
and
> everything
> >> > (except the roads) is covered in a light layer of snow.
Unbelievable.
> >> > Especially since two days ago Rum Runner and Yankee Clipper
had some
> great
> >> > sailing on Hartwell. Good wind 10-15 knots, but it was
pretty
> cold. See
> >> > the pictures of Rum Runner under sail and then of yours
truly with my
> >> winter
> >> > sailing garb. The other picture is proof that we sailied to
the
> Hartwell
> >> > dam and back.
> >> > Bob K
> >> > Yankee Clipper
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Name: DSCN0891.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 27695 bytes Desc:
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> >> > Url:
> >> >
> >>
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