[Rhodes22-list] Anybody out there?

[Mary Lou Troy]

Good question!

Fretless is now in the side yard awaiting the completion of several tasks.

Boatyard did the bottom paint a couple of weeks ago but then we took 
off for a long weekend visiting kids in NC followed by a week of 
catching on office work.

Yesterday ordered a new Davis Mega Light for the masthead. The cover 
for the old one (which was old) disappeared over the winter so we 
decided just to replace the whole unit. It hadn't been working 
reliably but Fred traced that problem to the connector.

Also ordered twist fasteners for our new poptop enclosure. Our old 
one was getting really ratty and we were really impressed by the new 
ones Stan had at Annapolis so we bit the bullet and bought that over 
the winter. Decided to try the twist fasteners because we use it so 
much and some of the damage to the old one was from snaps pulling 
through the cloth. They were expensive but we ordered them from 
Sailrite which had them for less than half of everyone else. We'll 
report on them after a season of use.

Next task, while we are waiting for those parts to come in is install 
the new main (with vertical batten) that we also ordered from Stan 
over the winter. I printed out all the instructions from the list 
that I saved over the years and we'll see if we can figure it out. 
Just waiting for a warmer day with less wind for that.

Also want to get a new coat of varnish (actually varnish-like 
product) on our 6 pieces of wood in the cockpit and maybe a couple of 
coats of real varnish on the tiller. Also want to restain the sides 
and sill of the companionway and clean up our wood interior.

Once we get the sail and masthead light done she can go in the water 
though it would be nice to get the varnishing done while the boat is home.

My guess is we'll be ready to go in the water next weekend or the 
week thereafter if the weather improves some - it's 47 out there 
right now and gusting to 15 but the afternoon is taken up with other 
responsibilities. Not complaining - yet - at least the snow and rain 
are gone and the ground is finally drying out.

Looking forward to a season of sailing.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD




At 09:30 AM 4/18/2010, you wrote:
>Some of you might be sailing, but not all?  Why so quiet?
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>Jim Connolly
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