[Rhodes22-list] Fenders, Dave and Elton's phone call

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Dave,
I try to imagine your pulling the boat cross country, and really wonder if there is any alternative.  That will be a buster.  Stan and Elton might be able to use some type of shield for the hull for such a long trip - rocks, tar, all sorts of mischief could foul the bottom before you really get underway after the pull.  There ought to be some way to protect your big investment.  They might be able to raise it on a sling, drape the trailer with some cloth or plastic/mylar, and lower it back down.  I might be able to find some plastic here and carry it to Stan when I take the new BR over.  I'd hate to get the gel dinged that way.  Let me know what you think.
Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Bradley <dwbrad at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 26, 2006 4:37 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fenders, Dave and Elton's phone call
>
>Ed, assuming you are asking this Dave...  nope, I didn't get a chance to go
>in the back building but if I do go down I'll check it out.  I have four new
>fenders waiting for a boat, but maybe there's something else I need.
>
>My hope is to go to Edenton to take delivery and go for a shake-down sail
>with Stan, as you say.  If I can't find a weekend that will work before late
>April I'll see if Elton can haul her north to CT and take her for a sail
>with me in LIS.  Either way, I agree wholeheartedly with the need for a
>shake-down cruise and some helpful hints at the helm.
>
>I didn't anticipate all these distractions of new jobs and real estate stuff
>getting in the way of taking delivery in March.  Damn, gotta get my
>priorities straight.
>
>Dave B.
>
>
>On 3/26/06, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dave,
>>      When you visited Edenton, did Stan show you the room with all the
>> "stuff"?  The room with the life preservers some from when he was a boy,
>> the
>> fenders, the lines, generally all sorts of stuff that came with the boats
>> he
>> picked up for recycle?
>>      If you are going to get the boat, pick out some used fenders and
>> offer
>> Stan a few dollars to get started.  If Elton is delivering, have him pick
>> out half a dozed is assorted sizes and shapes  in pairs and tell him you
>> want them cheap to do your own testing to see what you really need.
>>      All this fuss over fenders.  I am not sure that I have any two that
>> are exactly alike.  As Bill E said they wear out and you have to put them
>> in
>> the big green box.  What they have today is probably not what they have in
>> two years.
>>      I guarentee that if you use your boat, fenders or no fenders, you
>> will
>> put some dings in it.  Or if you do not, somebody else will.
>>       If you are going to Edenton to get the boat, make sure that Stan or
>> Elton take you on a shake down sail.  Get them to put the boat thru a good
>> test with you at the helm.  Elton says Stan is the better sailor, but
>> either
>> one is better than any body else you will ever get a chance to sail with.
>>
>> Ed K
>> Greenville, SC, USA
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