[Rhodes22-list] repowering Fretless

[Mary Lou Troy]

Ed,
At the moment my dreams don't include sailing 
south. I'll be happy enough to get a few 
overnights in before the end of October. There is 
absolutely nothing as wonderful as a clear cool 
October evening at anchor somewhere on the Chesapeake.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 08:09 PM 10/1/2007, you wrote:
>Mary Lou, Cancel all those other plans of yours 
>for the next two months.  You and Fred pack two 
>duffel bags, get an extra gas tank and make like 
>two happy snow birds.  Sail over to the Dismal 
>Swamp Canal, stop and visit with Commodore 
>Spitzer and keep heading south.  Bye and bye you 
>will find yourself at Savannah and you can visit 
>with Captain Keller.  In Savannah stop and see 
>the ships in a bottle museum.  Just think, by 
>Christmas you can be in Key West!  Think of what 
>Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you 
>will be more disappointed by the things that you 
>didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw 
>off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe 
>harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
>Explore. Dream. Discover.” If you wait to do 
>it next year, it will never happen.  But if you 
>set sail south now, you will be quacking all the 
>way... Ed K Greenville, SC, USA Mary Lou Troy-2 
>wrote: > > Thought I would report that we 
>managed to rassle the new Yamaha T8 > from the 
>outboard cart onto the foredeck. Then Fred, with 
>the help of > a very fine gentleman from 
>Holland, muscled it over the cabintop, > into 
>the cockpit and over the stern rail onto the 
>motor mount. I > think that Fred and I could 
>have done it but not as quickly. It was > 
>wonderful to have the help of someone with a bit 
>more muscle and > longer arms and legs.  His 
>Island Packet just happened to be in the > slip 
>across from ours while he's getting some work 
>done. > > Burt, the motor mount is backed with 
>plywood and has 6 or 8 bolts > holding it to the 
>transom. The Yamaha runs very well but it does 
>seem > to have a bit more vibration than the 
>Honda so we'll keep and eye on it. > > The folks 
>at Boathouse/Boater's World, the Yamaha dealer 
>on Kent > Island, were able to reuse our Honda 
>cockpit controls with the > addition of a new 
>shift lever on the motor side so that saved us 
>a > bit of money. Everything seems to work well 
>and we (Fred in > particular) is really going to 
>enjoy having the electric start. We > didn't get 
>a chance to take her out for a spin but we did 
>run it in > FN&R in the slip and it certainly 
>seems like it will push us along quite > 
>well. > > Hope to get a bit more sailing in 
>before the season ends. > > Mary Lou > 1991 R22 
>Fretless > Rock Hall, MD > > 
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