[Rhodes22-list] Schooner Sailing

[Rick]

Lee,

Congrats on being a 2 mast vet.  I've never been.

Rick

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

>
> Went to a business conference on Friday which included two hours of
> sailing.
> More honestly I went sailing on Friday which included some bogus business
> conference as an excuse:
>
> http://www.schoonerwoodwind.com/ http://www.schoonerwoodwind.com/
>
> Two identical sailboats racing each other with about 40 nonsailors on each
> boat.  Aside from the captain I was the only one interested in taking the
> helm of our boat (Woodwind II from the movie "The Wedding Crashers") and we
> lost terribly.  Obviously it was the professional captain's fault.  Loads
> of
> fun (partially because of loads of alcohol) despite torrential downpours
> almost the entire time--I've never been so wet for so long.  The Naval
> Academy's big sailboats and a professional IRC team (very impressive!) were
> the only idiots out aside from our group with our nonrefundable excursion
> fees.
>
> As much fun as it was to sail these boats you can't imagine how much work
> it
> is to raise and lower and constantly adjust four big nonfurling sails.
> Really made me appreciate our Rhodes.
>
> Forgot my camera which may have been a good thing.  Don't know if any
> cameras were broken from the rain but quite a few cell phones died.
>
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
>
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