[Rhodes22-list] Another newbie

[Rick]

Richard,

Always go with blue.

Rick
s/v Blue Heron

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Richard Arking
<richard.arking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello All Rhodies,  If you were at the Annapolis show this year you may
> have
> noticed a dark blue-black hulled R22 among the three boats Stan and Elton
> hauled to the Show.  The boat looked brand new to Donna and me as we
> approached that Friday; we were surprised  to learn  that it was a recycled
> boat and very pleased too, as our budget was for a recycled R22 , not a new
> one.  So, trusting Stan as we have learned to do from reading the list for
> several years and from sailing with Stan out of Edenton  in May 2010, well
> readers, we bought it!  Chris Cowie, Mac McCready were there reinforcing
> from their own experience what we had read of the R22's good sailing
> qualities and Chris took us for a nice sail in his own OPUS, a lovely day.
> Finally Mary Lou Troy clinched the deal absolutely, showing and telling
> Donna how comfortably she and her husband live aboard for weekends and
> longer.
>     We'll be trading back to GB the San Juan 21, a very lightly built
> nimble day sailer/racer we bought as a starter /practice boat from Stan in
> May 2010.  The SJ has been fun to sail in Sheepshead Bay , Brooklyn (out of
> Gateway Marina) but its time to step up to a more substantial boat we can
> mini-cruise on ( especially when I retire in two years).  So the boat is
> back in Edenton for some additional fitting out.  Which leads to a Question
> for the list: we want a new Bimini and  poptop enclosure to be the same
> color.  Meanwhile, the already in place cockpit cushions are a medium blue,
> similar if memory serves to "Capri Blue" on the Sunbrella website. Stan
> advises that the bimini is available in Navy blue, white, red or green. So,
> should we opt for white or for the navy?  Is White too impossible to keep
> clean for long?  Will it be too discordant if the Bimini and cushions are
> different shades of blue?  Should we even care?  But you know how new
> parents are- I mean of the boat, our children are twenty somethings.  Donna
> hears me typing this, she just called out," I think blue".  What does the
> list advise?  Thanks in advance for all the other questions I'll be posing
> to you in days and weeks to come.  Richard (and Donna) Arking.
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