[Rhodes22-list] Some simple dimensions, please:

[Geankoplis]

Thanks for the gift, Joe

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From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 16:04
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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Some simple dimensions, please:


     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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