[Rhodes22-list] Bridge Clearance

[TN Rhodey]

We moved my Uncles Pearson under a bidge. We had three guys sitting on the 
boom swung out over the water! It worked.

Wally


>From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
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>To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bridge Clearance
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:16:09 -0500
>
>Chris,
>
>Good tale!  I,ve got a friend here in Memphis (a tax attorney) who helped a
>doctor friend move his boat from Pickwick Lake to Florida down the Tom
>Bigbee.  During their 6 days of motoring they convinced themselves (with
>some help from alcohol) that they were smart guys and could use some high
>school algebra to figure out the exact degree of heel needed to pass the
>bridge in Mobile rather than de-mast.  They hung the dink off the boom and
>filled it with water until they got to the magic number of 11 degrees.  
>They
>figured perfectly - for the mast.  The VHF antenna and wind sensor didn't
>fare so well.
>
>Your story reminds me of an old Navy pilot expression, "better to die than
>look bad!".
>
>Brad
>
>On 8/19/06, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>Chris,
>>Great story. It almost sounds like something I would have done.
>>
>>Rummy
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