[Rhodes22-list] WTF - PDQ

[Geoff Farrell]

I've started the O/B while still tilted up out of the water (the O/B, not
me).... and my blood sugar was fine. Not sure about the alcohol content
though. Geoff

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Joe Camp <jjcampjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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