[Rhodes22-list] Welcome and Ready to sail!

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hey Lee, do they have transient slips where you keep your boat?

We are toying with the idea of starting the weekend on Friday.

Mary Lou


At 12:01 PM 5/20/2009, you wrote:

>Mary Lou,
>
>We'll be out this weekend and on the lookout for Fretless.
>
>Hope to see you!
>
>Lee
>
>
>Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> >
> > Wow. So many new Rhodies! Thanks all for speaking up and welcome to the
> > list!
> >
> > Hope everyone is in a position to take advantage of the great weather
> > we are having. I think Fretless is finally ready to go.
> >
> > We spent the afternoon dropping the mast (the system worked like a
> > champ as usual) and installing the halyard restrainer for the
> > Schaefer SnapFurl. Looks like the halyard restrainer fixed our
> > furling problems. We'll know for sure tomorrow when we go for a sail.
> > Sometimes you are just plain lucky. We already had a halyard
> > restrainer for the UPS and were worried about the real estate at the
> > mast head. Our steaming light is way up there in the same vicinity
> > too. Turns out that the two halyards fit easily through the new
> > larger restrainer AND the new restrainer could be installed using the
> > screw holes from the old restrainer! A test run in the dock had the
> > sail furling and unfurling more smoothly than it ever has.
> >
> > If you missed the background on this - last year was the first year
> > we had the Schaefer unit. When we installed it, we thought we would
> > first try it without the restrainer but then at the last minute
> > decided to swap halyards with the UPS and ended up with the jib
> > halyard being run through the restrainer for the UPS. When we put the
> > mast up this year we had the halyards where we wanted them with the
> > UPS halyard through the restrainer and going back to our original
> > idea of trying the SnapFurl unit without the restrainer. Bad idea.
> > Immediate crankiness and a halyard wrap. I think the 2 halyards will
> > be fine going through the same restrainer. There is plenty of room
> > and neither gets used all that much.
> >
> > Now we are one step closer to our stated goal of sailing more this
> > year than last year. Truth to be told, It won't be too hard.
> >
> > Mary Lou
> > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > Rock Hall, MD
> >
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