[Rhodes22-list] Some simple dimensions, please:

[Joe Camp]

Cowie:
Thanks for the pic.  I want to please Stan, so no big paint.  The numbering is what I will probably do, also.
Joe 

--- On Wed, 5/12/10, cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:

From: cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Some simple dimensions, please:
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 10:49 AM


Joe:

Enclosed is a photo of Opus to give you an idea of how I installed the boat
numbers and name.

http://old.nabble.com/file/p28536957/IMG_7065r.jpg IMG_7065r.jpg 



Joe Camp wrote:
> 
> 
>      I have cemented my deal with Stan for a 1987 boat to recycle; I'll
> have it beginning of August.  Following the GB guidelines (and in keeping
> with my own sense of style) I have elected to affix the name to the boat
> in the form of a nice brass or bronze plaque to the gunwhale side where
> the deck and hull are joined (near where the Rhodes 22 emblem is).
>  
>      What I need is the width of this space, so I can order the plate to
> fit.  Can anyone provide guidance on this measure?  (Yes, stupid question,
> because  I KNOW someone can and will.)
> Therein lies the beauty of this forum.  And to say thanks, I will include
> a (non-nautical) poem to tease you all into thinking I am somehow special
> or telented.  Tally-ho!  (wait, that's for horses)
> OK, avast!
>  
> Joe 
> 
>             Don Henry’s Hands
>         
>                                                                         JJ
> Camp
>  
> They look the same
> today as fifteen—twenty
> years ago when ancient
> tools still knew his
> handprint-grip guided them.
> Fingers recall every splinter
> of experience: each deliberate nail
> hammered first, then set
> with the polished steel punch
> honed glassy-smooth
> by a generation of use 
> generation of care 
> careful practice, practiced art
> learned beside the wide slow
> Juniata River—shadow 
> of Herringbone Ridge on dewy
> mornings reached toward
> the pensive water, purposefully
> watched Don unfold the wooden
> ruler—gift from his father—history
> alive in every quarter-inch.  
>  
> And a younger Don—remembering—knows every
> good hole to fish on the Lickin’ Creek
> above the river, in days
> when Bashore’s Hardware 
> still had gas pumps
> on Main Street in old Port Royal.
>                                                                        
> November 2004 
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
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