[Rhodes22-list] New Sailing Experience

[anima13]

Bite me!
OOps, saying that got me in trouble before!
Anne
Hate that I missed your 50th you youngster!
I would have had fun with THAT one.

-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] New Sailing Experience


Anne,

Just before the 'incident' I, ahem, started the iron jenny and gave the helm
to the father.  A boat from the regatta was closing in on us from behind and
the 10 year old says, "that boat is catching us"!  I, ahem, put on a few
more RPM and continued with my chores when this punk says, "he's got both
sails out"! I pick up the binoculars and look at the boat and see it's a
J-24.  I'm about to launch into a discussion of "look kid, boats are just
like women, some are built for speed, others for comfort", but then realize
ten is perhaps a bit too early for that and Fan is listening.  Then his
brother tries his chemistry experiment and now getting kicked in the but by
a J-24 is the least of our worries.

You missed the Chinese Moon Festival AND my 50th birthday.  Keep this up you
wench and you won't get a Christmas card this year!

Brad




On 10/28/06, anima13 <anima13 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Oh Brad, that is funny!
> So you do get back to TN, huh?
> We went X-sailing today. 26mph and wild on the KY.
> We out-pointed EVERYthing on the lake including the sailboats!
> Only four other boats. No one was up for a race.
> My face is so windburned!
> I only wished I still had my Rhodes, cuz I used to go out in that
> stuff by myself in the Rhodes.
> Anne
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:32 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] New Sailing Experience
>
>
> Today was an awesome day for sailing in West Tennessee.  The sun was
> shining, temperature was in the high sixties, and 15 to 20 knots of wind
> blew for most of the day.  Fan invited a Chinese couple and their 10 and
> 12
> year old boys for their first sailing experience.  My boat is easy enough
> to
> single-hand, but the cockpit is actually smaller than a Rhodes-22 and
> getting around the wheel to man the jenny can get cumbersome with more
> than
> a couple of people on board.  The first few  miles out of my marina is a
> narrow channel with lots of turns and it is a PITA to tack with both sails
> until the channel widens anyway. We were doing five knots or so on the
> main
> only and I was pretty happy. The 12 year old is an academic nerd so I
> started explaining how the sail produced lift.  I should have known I was
> in
> trouble by the book he was reading, "Building Blocks of the Universe" by
> Issac Asimov.  He stared in on Bernoulli's Theory and I'm thinking to
> myself, "they teach that in middle school"?  There was a regatta going on
> in
> the main channel and the youngest asks, "why do all those boats have two
> sails and you only have one".  I did my best to explain that I actually
> have
> two sails without revealing it was too much hassle with all the people on
> board to fly the jenny.  That didn't work so out comes the jenny.  On the
> return leg back to the marina I furled the jenny and put the father at the
> helm so I could start tidying things up.  Then hell broke loose.
>
> "What is that chemical"?
>
> "What chemical"?
>
> "That chemical I just sprayed"?
>
> Holy shit, the 12 year old somehow discharged the fire extinguisher
> mounted
> just inside the companionway.  Cora was sleeping on one of the salon
> berths
> and I could barely see her.  I jumped into the cabin, threw Cora up to
> cockpit, and jumped there myself.  If you've never seen a dry chemical
> fire
> extinguisher discharged before, trust me, it produces a cloud of
> dust.  The
> cabin sole was covered in the stuff.  Then the 12 year old asked how much
> further we had to go because he was bored. I was about to ask him the
> chemical composition of the stuff he was about to be drowned in when Fan
> gave me one of those, "it isn't worth going to prison over" looks.
>
> We managed to get the cabin sole cleaned in about 30 minutes, which come
> to
> think of it, needed mopped anyway.  It was a pleasant sail despite the
> incident.  I'm sure this kid will make a great professor of something some
> day.  I can assure you he won't learn to sail or fly on my watch!
>
> Brad
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