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

[elle]

Mike,

I'm on the Lower Potomac....near Kinsale..there's a dock here that's open to all who are kind & wise. (check it out at www.northernneckimages.com) go to the last page of the site.

elle

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

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


--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:

> From: Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Captain of the Metaphor - Happy New Year
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 3:41 PM
> "Mike,  Do you plan to race your R22?
> Wally"
> 
> Wally -- No. I just want to sail it aimlessly for a while,
> maybe spend a
> week or more just wandering around the Chesapeake this
> summer by myself. 
> Just out of curiosity, do you know what its PHRF rating
> might be?
> 
> -------
> "Hmmm, mwager...  I used to have a neighbor from the
> Chicago area 
> named Brian Wager.  He moved to GA and worked with me at
> Coke.  Might 
> be in Florida now, not sure, we lost touch.  Any relation? 
> Cheers! 
> John Lock"
> 
> John--No relation that I know of.  My family is from
> western PA and I grew
> up in Upstate NY.  How did he pronounce his last name? 
> (WaGer or Wajer?)
> ------
> "We do hope you are able to find time for Metaphor in
> and amongst all 
> those racing commitments. Will getting the Pearson ready
> take time as 
> well as money? 
> 
> We love the Choptank and Little Choptank though we
> generally get down 
> that far only once a year. We've been to Dun's Cove
> but never as far 
> as Harris. It's nearly a full day for us to
> Knapp's. The Little 
> Choptank is a favorite as are LaTrappe and the Tred Avon.
> The Miles 
> is a little closer and we tend do that once a year as well.
> It's 
> often been just a trip to St. Michael's and back but I
> really like 
> the Wye and would like explore some of the other places off
> ther 
> Miles as well. Last year we (some of the Chesapeake
> Rhodies) talked 
> about a possible Rhodes Rhendezvous in Tilghman Creek off
> the Miles 
> but planning kind of petered out. We didn't do nearly
> as much sailing 
> as we would have liked last year - hoping that this coming
> season 
> will be better. 
> Mary Lou"
> 
> Mary Lou--A crew mate bought the boat at the Chesapeake Bay
> Maritime Museum
> auction this fall for a steal.  It needs some work, but not
> much, new sails
> and lines, bottom paint and elbow grease, and will kept at
> Tilghman Creek,
> where the other boats I sail (sailed) are kept.  You have
> the opposite
> problem from mine-- Harris Creek feeds out to the Choptank,
> so I can head
> south easily, but to get to Kent Narrows is much more more
> time consuming. 
> (If you were at Dun's Cove, you were maybe 3/4 mile
> from my home.)
> 
> Racing is what spurred my recent re-interest in this forum.
> Honestly I'm
> getting a bit tired of the repetitiveness of the racing
> courses.  The people
> I sail with are great friends, but the Miles River has
> become a bit
> constricted for the last couple of years. I want to wander
> a bit.  
> 
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