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

[budconnor at earthlink.net]

Ed,
   looks like a good site, thanks for the link.

-Bud

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>From: Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net>
>Sent: Aug 28, 2006 9:21 AM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: [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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