[Rhodes22-list] WTF - PDQ

[KUHN, LELAND]

Joe,

It's good luck to have a bad start--after all it can only get better.
Don't feel too bad about the oil thing; I've tried starting my motor
without gas.  

Hope you'll be able to get her out for her first sail today!

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
Kent Island, MD

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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:51 PM
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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] WTF - PDQ

OK: Let me remedy the no posts illness.

I am now (officially) a retired cop.  I have now left my (old) home in
suburban 
Philadelphia and have settled (if that's what you'd call it) in
Hot-as-Hell-High 
Point, NC.  Last Thursday, my daughter and I drove the nearly two hours
to John 
Kerr lake in northern NC to take possession (if that's what you'd call
it) of my 
recycled '87 Rhodes.  It was one of the worst days of the last two
decades 
(maybe three) for me; and that's a graceful description.  

By the time Elton arrived with the boat (which, by the way, surpassed
every 
expectation) the temp was well into the nineties.  We began rigging in a
shady 
spot, which soon became a sunny spot.  Elton was a real trooper:
twenty-three 
years my senior, and the guy would not quit.  We must have sweat a
couple of 
quarts an hour.  I had low blood sugar incident as well as a return of
an old 
heat stroke episode that's plagued me for twenty years.  So, I was
obliged to 
take several breaks in the car A/C.  Late in the afternoon, we backed
her into 
the water (bottomed-out on what I hope was the trailer) and In my haste,
I 
pulled the motor chord...w/o adding oil.  

A kindly woman and her young son towed me the several hundred yards to
my slip, 
where (still suffering from the effects of the heat) I made a poor
attempt to 
tie up my proud new possession.  It was the biggest collection of granny
knots 
since my first attempt at the Boy Scouts "Knot-tying" merit badge (which
I never 
actually earned).  My daughter drove home, and after 30 minutes in
constant A/C, 
with a gallon of water in my depleted system, I was almost human again.


Well, a week has passed.  The marina mechanics fixed the O/B.  And
tomorrow, I 
will return to the marina to un-screw my unworthy efforts, and maybe
take the 
boat out of the marina for a short sail.
I may report (favorably) on the matter soon.  

There ya go folks: a post

Joe Camp
s/v John Dawson 


      
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