[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Ann, Bill Johnston, Bud, and Rummy

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Ann,
	Water’s sail is a local to Columbia, South Carolina sail loft and not a big
boat yard.  Joe Waters is an outfit similar to Stan.  I have dealt with him.
	
Bill:
	Your expanded story is appreciated and the kind of story we like.  Sorry
about your boat loss and understand that you are trying to keep the First
Mate happy.  

Bud:
 	Are you familiar with this web site:
          
http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/weatherradar.asp?sit=27

Rummy:
	And you are the one who complains when I invite others to the area.  

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
      

Bill Johnston wrote:
> 
> 
>    I need to add an addendum to my "boat for sale" announcement.
>    Unfortunately the list was totally foreign to me, and I never received
>    a rule book about how this list serve is understood.
>    I guess that I can also blame the fact that I am 70, and that along
>    with listing the notice I was  officiating at a big formal wedding on
>    Saturday and getting a sermon ready to preach on Sunday morning. After
>    45 years as a minister, I will be retiring for the second time within
>    a few weeks. Also I don't know what you call a friend who will take
>    calls on your "boat for sale" ads but who does not charge for that
>    service. Agent was the only term that I knew.  If I can sell it
>    through the list then the 5% fee will go to Stan.
> 
>    After having sailboats for years, I had an unexpeted {of course, it is
>    the unexpected that gives life to sailing, isn't it?} event about a
>    year ago. My 1979 Erickson 25 was tied to my dock one afternoon during
>    a terrible thunder storm. There was also a long extention cord on the
>    dock for another reason. I had just come in from the hour commute to
>    the church where I am an interim pastor when I looked out and realized
>    that the boat had taken a lightning strike that had ignited the fuel
>    in the galley, and the cabin was burning. I called 911, and grabbed a
>    garden hose on the way to the dock. I slid the hatch open to use the
>    fire extinguisher and to try to let the driving rain help diminish the
>    intensity of the blaze, but the extinguisher, the garden hose and the
>    rain didn't help much. I was using an outboard on the boat, and the
>    fire was almost to engulf the portable gas tank, so I took the
>    tank loose, picked it up and jumped onto the dock just before the fire
>    got into that compartment. I thought that this would prevent an
>    explosion. I continued to use the garden hose, but it took the firemen
>    to finally put out the blaze. Of course they followed their training
>    and broke out all of the ports in the boat.
> 
>    My wife had come in from her commute from the college where she
>    teaches [the commutes are the price that we pay to live on the lake],
>    and saw my gas tank leap. After 42 years of marriage I thought that
>    she would say something like "my hero", but rather it came out more
>    like "stupid", and boats can be replaced, but old husbands need to
>    learn to be smart. So when I preach on hell, which as a Presbyterian
>    I don't do very often, I have a vivid image to communicate. Yes, I
>    know that I got long winded with this narrative, but I also seem to do
>    this in the pulpit.
> 
>    The Rhodes 22 was a sight unseen boat off of ebay, and it doen't fit
>    our useage of a sailboat. My next "good old boat" has been purchased,
>    and I just need to sell a smaller, "good old boat".
> 
>    May God bless you.
> 
>    Bill Johnston
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