[Rhodes22-list] I'VE BEEN OUTED! or 'My Journey TO a RHODES'

[Wickman, William E]

Pete,

There is no cure.  It only gets worse.  

 

I have made that same drive to Boone, and while I didn't take the detour
that Ed's picture shows, I'm sure that you had plenty of occasions to
look at the stern of your boat while rounding some of those curves.

 

Bill W.

 

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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] I'VE BEEN OUTED! or 'My Journey TO a RHODES'

 

 

I guess it's time to 'surface' since the Ed pics officially outed me.
First I

would like to say that I am really not as old as the pictures make me
look.

I think it was the light that day, probably too much of it. I have been

living 6 months in Boone, NC (June to Dec) and six months in Key Largo
(Dec

thru May) for the past 6 years. I have been sailing for 6 years and have

been a classed river kayaker for 12 years. I am relatively friendly. 

 

Next, I admit that it is true that I bought a RHODES without ever
personally

seeing one or sailing one. I know that it's kinda crazy, so I hope I fit

right in with this group. After sailing several boats I did get a real
clear

picture of what I wanted in a boat.  I spent two years of research to
arrive

at the RHODES choice. The RHODES was the only boat that looked to exceed
my

requirements. I think it will.

 

In my search for what I could afford, sometime around end of October for

about three days, I actually had first right of refusal on three used

RHODES! I was the second in line for the steve crop RHODES in ft. laud.
I

had dibs on another RHODES that has not resurfaced yet. And then I
called

Rummy. 

 

I can't really say enough about the help and enthusiasm that Rummy and
also

Ed gave to me upon my bearing in on the Lake Hartwell RHODES. At some
point

when I told Rummy I was a bit nervous, he actually told me to 'knock it
off,

your getting a great boat and my name is on the line as well'.  It has
been

years since I met someone who was actually concerned about their good
name.

How refreshing!

 

I did meet Stan, who baptised me at the factory upon picking up my
trailer.

It was a cold day in Edenton and Stan had a huge parka on that went from
his

knees to just past his chin.  Rose did paperwork and I proceeded onto
Lake

Hartwell. I did trailer the RHODES to Boone NC in the High Country and
found

myself to be more of a religious man than I thought, as I drove HWY 321

straight up to Blowing Rock in my 20 year old rusting FORD F-150 named

"Beast".  I did start breathing again the next day.

 

I will have many technical questions to be sure. For now the most
pressing

are:

 

1) How many weeks go by before you stop compulsively walking outside and

constantly looking at your Rhodes?

2) Is it considered an extra marital affair if you are touching your
RHODES

more than your wife?

3) Is it a diagnosable mental disability, if you simply can't stop
thinking

about sailing in your RHODES?

 

Thanks for being such a great group and to Stan for his passion.

 

NEXT: "My Journey IN a RHODES"

 

Pete Lauritzen

Red Rhodes 89 Recycled 2004

 

 

 

 

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