[Rhodes22-list] Bridge Clearance

[Chris Geankoplis]

Ah, Brad,
                I like this bartering economy based on stories, I think the
whole world could learn from this!  I enjoyed your story, good trade.

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bridge Clearance


> 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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