[Rhodes22-list] Sailing: Dear Lee

[Peter Thorn]

Dear Lee,

By all means, go sailing.  It's always the right thing to do for your health
-- especially mental health.  Although you can't  really do anything about
being over 50, sailing can make that condition a lot more bearable.  If your
wife and son will go along that's all the better.  Enjoy your day!

Abby    

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Dear Abby,

I have a small window of opportunity to go sailing tomorrow, but I don't
know if it's the right thing to do.

I've delayed getting my over 50 physical for three years now because of the
violating nature of one of the tests.  In fact, when the military came out
with their "don't ask, don't tell" policy, I considered getting a DO NOT
ENTER sign tatooed on one cheek and a ONE WAY sign on the other.

I was scheduled to get this heinous procedure done on Monday, which means I
would have needed to fast all day tomorrow.  My wife and son have agreed to
go sailing with me for fear that I might die in the frigid waters of the
Chesapeake if I attempt to go out by myself in my weakened condition.

I can never get my wife and son to go sailing with me, and they won't let me
go sailing tomorrow without them.

I have yet to tell them that I have once again canceled my test.

Is that wrong?

Signed,

At Ease (under normal circumstances)

1986 Rhodes22  
Kent Island, MD



Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> Yeah you could be on the Chesapeake but it would remind you of home.
> 
> Sock burning was a couple of weeks ago but there are a lot of 
> diehards walking around with cold ankles. Temps have edged up to the 
> 50s but generally only when it rains. There have been a few days nice 
> enough to work on the boat. Still needs light sanding and touching up 
> of the bottom paint and then we have to rearrange the masthead gear, 
> sort out and install the new forestay and backstay, then raise the 
> mast to check everything out and install the new furler. There are a 
> couple of days next week forecast to be in the 50s and sunny.
> 
> Friends of ours have launched their boats but we've seen very few 
> folks sailing. Water temp is still in the high 40s.
> 
> We do have daffodils, forsythia and ornamental pears and cherries 
> blooming so spring must be close.
> 
> Glad to hear your snow is melting. I figure all this cold wind comes 
> from the snowpack up north.
> 
> And Ron, those pictures didn't help me feel any warmer. ;-)
> 
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:30 AM 4/4/2008, you wrote:
>>The snow has melted around the wheels of my trailer
>>in my driveway in Gorham, Maine.
>>
>>Pretty soon the town will be around to suck the sand
>>off my lawn to use again next winter.  This is New
>>England, you know.  Use it up, wear it out, fix it,
>>and use it some more.
>>
>>Just think - I could be sailing on the Chesapeake now.
>>When is sock-burning?  I got an itch!
>>
>>/Robert
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