[Rhodes22-list] mini Rhodes fleet action .....

[Mike Cheung]

Fair to middling wind; I'd guess 10 - 12 kts out of the east with some
gusting.  Here's a shot of Rick on Blue Heron playing with a gust.

http://www.nabble.com/file/p23582293/Copy%2Bof%2BPICT0008.jpeg 

Mike Cheung s/v Muireann


Leland wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Nice picture of Rick's boat.  How windy was it?
> 
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  At Ease
> Kent Island, MD
>   
> 
> Rick-139 wrote:
>> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> I was good to meet you and both of your Muireanns.  The weather next week
>> looks great for a cruise to the Islands.  Have fun.
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Mike Cheung <mikecheung at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Got Muireann out for her shakedown yesterday (part of plan B for the end
>>> of
>>> semester sailing trip ...) and things went fairly well.  We trailered
>>> from
>>> home just north of Akron to the Edgewater ramps in Cleveland Harbor. 
>>> Got
>>> Muireann rigged.  We're trying some new tricks to speed up rigging a
>>> little.
>>> We left the side stays and aft stays rigged and taped and just coiled
>>> them
>>> separately.  Also the lower stays were not coiled, but rather were
>>> gathered
>>> up along the mast and tied off along with the genoa/forestay and boom.
>>>  This
>>> seemed to save time though we aren't ready for a 'clock & board'
>>> exercise
>>> just yet.  Found that we managed to lose the fiddle block stirrup over
>>> the
>>> winter.  We probably lost it the very last time we rigged Muireann for
>>> trailer last October after visiting Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie
>>> (coincidentally
>>> the second part of plan B should have us there again tomorrow or Monday.
>>> Until we replaced the stirrup later yesterday afternoon (thanks to the
>>> skipper of Blue Heron!, more on that later), we jury rigged (what a
>>> polite
>>> phase that is ....) the connection between the fiddle block and the boom
>>> end
>>> with a little cordage.  It worked well enough to get us out into the
>>> lake.
>>>
>>> While cruising outside the breakwall, we heard a call for "Rhodes 22" on
>>> channel 16.  My admiral answered and discovered that Blue Heron was
>>> hailing
>>> us from about two miles further offshore.  We sailed north, Blue Heron
>>> sailed south, and a mini Rhodes rendezvous was in the making.
>>>
>>> Here's a shot of Blue Heron crossing Muireann's bows ....
>>>
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23572871/Copy%2Bof%2BPICT0018.jpeg
>>>
>>> After soon maneuvering, Muireann accompanied Blue Heron home and Rick
>>> (Blue
>>> Heron's skipper) was kind enough to give me a ride over to Sailing Inc.
>>> to
>>> replace the lost stirrup.  Miraculously they had it and on the boating
>>> cost
>>> scale it may as well have been free.  Muireann's fiddle block is whole
>>> again.
>>>
>>> After visiting with Rick for a bit, my Admiral and I set off for our
>>> launch
>>> point, which was at the other (western) end of Cleveland Harbor from
>>> Blue
>>> Heron's home.  The wind was with us and we sailed wing-in-wing with the
>>> nifty new Forespar pole making it seem ridiculously easy.
>>>
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23572871/Copy%2Bof%2BPICT0024.jpeg
>>>
>>> All-in-all a good shakedown.
>>>
>>> Today is scheduled under plan B to be a work day to do a few things on
>>> Muireann then we're off to the Lake Erie Islands tomorrow for a short, 4
>>> day
>>> cruise.  We're not planning on a visit to Canada, but we've stowed a
>>> quarantine flag and a Canadian courtesy flag on board and will rig a
>>> flag
>>> halyard on our starboard spreader arm, just in case.
>>>
>>> Mike Cheung, s/v Muireann
>>>
>>>
>>>
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