[Rhodes22-list] Height of pulpit?

[elle]

Hello, Carl,
Nice to have you around...since you've been lurking a while you know the makeup of the list.

Welcome!

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 Mon, 1/12/09, carl <mvd00108 at mvtel.net> wrote:

> From: carl <mvd00108 at mvtel.net>
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Height of pulpit?
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 9:09 PM
> Hello all,
> I am new to the list, but have lurked round for about 1.5
> years now. I 
> bought John's old boat a little more than a year ago 
> http://www.nabble.com/New-Guy-td5403773.html#a5412708 and
> we (myself, 
> wife and 2 kids )  have been sailing quite a bit ever
> since.
> which is one reason I have not posted, been too busy.we
> have made 4 
> trips on the ocean and numerous ones in our local lake the
> longest being 
> over the last Christmas break, 7 days and 7 nights sailing
> aransas bay, 
> corpus christi bay and the ICW in between, with a bit of
> laguna Madre 
> thrown in at the end.
> We are very pleased with the handling of our boat, and have
> seen every 
> type of weather from scorching hot sun whilst being
> becalmed, to a 50+  
> (43 knot) squall in FL. The only real misadventures we have
> had have 
> been self inflected, but we have been learning very
> valuable 
> lessons,such as...DON'T FORGET THE PLUG ! and my new
> note to self.."if 
> you see fishing boats running from a black cloud...try to
> catch up."
>  Rose, my lovely wife of 20 years has been unsuccessfully
> trying to 
> learn to fish during our outings, not catching anything
> yet, so if 
> anyone has any pointers about how to troll behind a
> sailboat, or why no 
> fish seem to be biting while we are at anchor, feel free to
> drop her a line.
> 
> I am in the process of making a pulpit and had a couple
> questions. could 
> someone measure the height of your pulpit for me? I am
> guessing the 
> stock ones will be about 28 inches. I tried finding a used
> one, but 
> there are very few boat yards here
> (Fox,AR) to get parts from (read that as none), so I am
> planning on 
> making quite a few things myself..I work at a machine shop,
> so I can 
> fabricate footpads, and tig weld together the tubing.
> 
> I realize the boat I have bought is quite old, but we like
> her and plan 
> on renovating  as we have time/money to do so.I am planning
> on 
> leangthing the galley a bit, as the floor plan on ours is a
> bit 
> different than the new ones. ours has a cross beam instead
> of a center 
> pole, which I think I like better, it gives a bit more
> wigglin around 
> room.Although the new "swell head" looks really
> neat.
> 
> gonna run for now, will try and post some pics of out
> journeys,
> 
> BFN,
> Carl
> 
> 
> 
> 
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