[Rhodes22-list] Not sailing the Med (final)

[Chris Geankoplis]

Thanks Rod and Mary,
                                   It seems the best approach to life.  I
still owe you guys and everyone on the list more commentaries so I'll send
a couple off.  Enjoy your vacation, not going to Spain are you?

Chris & Alice
Enosis I

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Rod Ellner <rodellner at mac.com> wrote:

> Chris
>
> Making lemonade!  Wish we were able to be at Annapolis for the show and
> fellow Rhodes.   We'll be out of country on vacation at that time.
>
> Keep the blogs and stories coming.  (We live vicariously through your
> travels!)
>
> Get well. Totally understand getting back for insurance....and to check out
> Enosis II
>
> Rod and Mary
> s/v Toy Blew
> St  Croix River-WI
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 13, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Chris Geankoplis <
> chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So,
> >      Life gets in the way sometimes. So when we found ourselves facing 3
> > convincing reasons to delay the Med trip until next June we acquiesced
> and
> > called a time out.
> >
> > *Reason One:  Time.*  Enosis I   is snugged down in a former carnation
> > warehouse surround by little truck farms and flower growing farms in
> North
> > Eastern Spain.  Finally got the paperwork done.  From the vantage point
> of
> > having done the administrative portion of the import if I were to do it
> > again it would have taken a maximum of a week instead of three.  Located
> a
> > tow truck on short notice and a place to store the boat also on short
> > notice.  Had there been more time I could have arranged for repairs to
> the
> > trailer so it could travel the 80 miles to an RV storage  place in
> Norther
> > 'Spain;  there wasn't enough time.  So instead of paying $540 for 9
> months
> > I paid a bit more than two and a half times that.  It is indoors though
> so
> > that is nice.* See Attached* So we lost 3 weeks of the best sailing
> weather
> > and spent a lot more money especially for room and food (about $140 a
> day)
> > and storage.  Our gain was a wonderful 3 weeks together in Spain doing
> the
> > tourist  thing on land.
> >
> > *Reason Two:   Medical. *  In my previous note I mentioned "medical"
> > problems.  Had a successful examination and it looks like no operation
> > right away and no big  "C."  So I do need to go back to the U.S. where I
> > have insurance for some further work.
> >
> > *Reason Three:  Hurricane Irma.*  We understand from the boat yard where
> > Enosis II our home (a Catalina 387) is up on the hard, that our boat is
> in
> > "one piece" and "no assembly required".  However there probably was a
> fair
> > amount of rain water that did get driven in and we will have a mold farm
> if
> > we don't take care of it.  Also it will give us a chance to get the ball
> > rolling early on some work we wanted done this fall.  So we fly to Ft.
> > Lauderdale, spend a couple of days then on to Baltimore for a month or
> so.
> > Same price to fly from here to Baltimore as from here to Ft. Lauderdale
> and
> > then Baltimore, under $500 each.
> >
> > *Bonus Reason: * *We can attend the **Boat Show* and see Stan and all the
> > other Rhodies.  See you at the show.
> >
> > Chris & Alice Geankoplis
> > '83 Rhodes     Enosis
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