[Rhodes22-list] Loss Of A Good Friend and Sailor

[KUHN, LELAND]

David,

Sorry to hear about David Luchenbach.  The website is one of my
favorites.  Great pictures and videos of Rhodes22s.  Didn't realize that
one of them was yours.

I used to live in San Antonio and love Texas, but I still think their
barbeque sauce is barely one step above catsup.  :)

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
Kent Island, MD



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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of David Culp
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:59 PM
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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Loss Of A Good Friend and Sailor

Most of you have either visited or heard of the website
www.sailingtexas.com It is a treasure trove of sailboat and sailing
information and it offers
completely free sailboat ads to the public.  The originator and owner of
the
site and a very good friend to me and the sailing world has passed.

David Luckenbach passed away on February 23th very peacefully after a
year
long battle with cancer.  I met David 6 years ago after moving back to
the
Central Texas area.  I had been out of sailing for a number of years and
wanted to get back in.  I thought I knew how to sail, but I really
didn't.
 David was an ASA certified sailing instructor and he gave me
a refresher course which I shall always remember.  The most
knowledgeable
sailor I ever knew: in two days, we covered everything including flying
the
spinnaker and it was one of the most enjoyable times that I have ever
had on
the water.  He was always fun to be around-but wouldn't cut you any
slack
when it came to sailing.  He was an artist and his greatest joy was
conveying his "art" to you. Over the years, we would continue to get
together and sail for fun; always looking for that little extra
efficiency
on the tack or that extra bit of speed by trimming the sails just right.
That paid off last year when we won The Bridge Too Far race a distance,
endurance race on David's Flying Scot after crossing the starting line
dead
last thanks to a tangled spinnaker.

Most every sailor in Central Texas knew David or knew of him and we are
all
going to miss him.  His wife tells me his greatest hope was that
sailingtexas.com will continue.  If you haven't been there before, give
it a
look.  There are some pictures and videos of my boat and there is a huge
sailboat picture gallery with specs cataloging about every other model
of
sailboat you can think of.

David Culp
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