[Rhodes22-list] towing the dark side

[Charles Henthorn]

Elle:
     I confess---I've towed the dark side---but using only the wind.  Towed a fishing boat with my dinghy (Capri14.2 w/no motor) about 2 miles to a marina about 3 yrs ago.  Looked so strange, someone took a picture and sent in to local newspaper.
  Rex

elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Good story. 

elle



--- cjlowe wrote:

> We've had a few tows ourselves,one really made me
> sad.We were at a reservoir
> about 10 miles from our home lake (which was 15 feet
> higher than normal and
> we couldn't get under the power lines across the 
> channel) we were tacking
> back and forth towards the marina about a mile
> away,wind right on the
> nose,of coarse.We saw a well used poontune boat head
> out of the marina ,
> made it about half way to where we were,slowed down
> and everybody moved to
> the stern and watched the two men tinker with the 
> outboard.As we got close
> to them, they were down to rowing back towards the
> marina,with 4 kids,ages 5
> to10 ,in their brand new pfds.Disappointment was
> written all over their
> faces, as a much looked forward to day on the lake
> with dad, was rapidly
> heading south. As we pulled along side of
> them,Duke,our Dalmatian, came
> bounding out of the cabin and jumped up on the
> gunnels and greeted the
> kids.The dads had had enough of the oars for one
> day and gladly accepted
> the offer of a tow back. Duke and the kids were
> having so much fun showering
> each other with attention,we rafted up and slowly
> limped back to the docks,
> rather then tow them behind.By the time we got back
> to the dock there was
> more dog hair on the boat than on Duke's back,from
> all the petting.As the
> kids got off the boat, they were all smiles,arguing
> about which one of them
> Duke liked the best. Alls well that ends well.
> 
> Jerry Lowe
> 
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

1992 Rhodes 22 Recyc '06 "Water Music" (Lady in Red)

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