[Rhodes22-list] Captain of the Metaphor - Happy New Year

[TN Rhodey]

Mike,  Do you plan to race your R22?

Wally

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:

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> > So Captain Wager, you are still with us?  Great to see that you are still
> > here.  And this time you tell us that you are an experienced 'racer'.
> > Welcome back.
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> Thanks, Ed, though it's more Crewman than Captain, as I generally do
> foredeck and spinaker on one boat and cockpit and jib on the other.  As the
> tiller, I'm a snake-waker, and as as tactician, I'm a nit-wit. The boats I
> crew aboard are a Bristol 35, "Terroir" and until this season, a Triton 30,
> "Inka". Prior to these boats I was on a Catalina 27, "Cool Breeze."
> Unfortunately, the skipper of 'Inka" passed away this November at the ripe
> age of 92 -- until early September, he was still sailing with us. The same
> crew is planning on regrouping aboard a Pearson 30, if we can get it rigged
> for racing ($$$) by late April.
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> My own boat has not seen as much sea time as it deserves, because of the
> schedule above (24 Wednesday nights and 15 Saturdays a year) and my time
> working on OB boats (anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks per year.)  I lurked the
> list for a long time, picking up a lot of good information from it from a
> lot of respectable sailors, until it seemed to have drifted away this year.
> Now that it seems to be heading back on course, maybe in some small way, I
> can add to the collective knowledge base accumulating here.
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> Mike
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