[Rhodes22-list] Fandango's Finally Wet

[Ellner]

Way to go, Slim.......feels good to have her in the water, doesn't it?   We 
just lolled on the boat Sunday--...felt good to be on the water 
again........Mary




At 12:45 AM 5/31/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Finally!  We got some very nice whether today and splashed three boats
>including Fandango.  We didn't actually sail--we just launched the boat with
>the mast down and motored around to the dock.  Then we sunk the mooring
>poles and got the boat fully secured at the dock.
>
>Incidentally, we have a great method of sinking poles into the lake bottom:
>We have a piece of 1/2" copper pipe that's about 7 or 8 feet long that has a
>garden hose connection on one end. It's a home-made thing with a shut-off
>valve and all.  We turn on the hose and water squirts through the pipe and
>we use this as a "drill."  I get out in the water wearing my waders and get
>the pole in position.  Then take the "hydro-drill" and position it parallel
>to the pole.   I stick it down on the bottom with the water running full
>blast and as I work it up and down along the pole, it squirts the sand away
>and the pole goes down as if I'm sinking it in hot butter.  Effortless!
>Within an hour or two, the sand fills back in and the pole is solid in the
>bottom.  Pulling the pole out is just as easy.  A few squirts with the
>"hydro-drill" and the pole easily lifts out by hand.
>
>So thus, I sank my four mooring poles, secured the boat and then raised the
>mast on the water.  We secured the other boats in the fleet as well.
>Everything went smoothly and we're fully good-to-go now, but God, am I
>pooped!
>
>It's Summer!   8-)
>
>Slim
>
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