[Rhodes22-list] New Sailing Experience

[Brad Haslett]

Anne,

If the wind isn't blowing over Thanksgiving come on down.  You know where
your bedroom is. While we're on that subject, it is betime for me - early
sim tomorrow.

"If I'd known I was going to live this long I'd have taken better care of
myself"!

Brad


On 10/28/06, anima13 <anima13 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> 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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