[Rhodes22-list] Crack in Transom

[stan]

Mike,

I heard that.

I am sitting in my empty haunted house and I can hear a year drop.  I am 
93 going on 193.

OK, I'll put off taking the beard off til tomorrow to say I have never 
heard of a transom crack, even those made by others.  I vote for an 
external hit job.  Our in house hulls have no cores or back up plates.  
They are 100% glass, ridiculously thick so can't flex and so strong only 
the two transom eyes attach to a crane to move the boat through the air. 
We do not maintain our non profit organizational status for nothing.  It 
is costly.

As long as I have broken my silence I want to thank everyone for 
honoring Cecelia's admonishing to hold condolence emails that start my 
crying again.  I knew 70 wonderful years had to end badly but I could 
not imagine it being this painful and did not want efforts to easing 
that pain be missing their mark.  I know my "thoughts" inbox is full of 
your good thinking and thank you all.

Knocking the Rhodes is another matter.  Keep it up. The business has 
been my only partially effective pain killer so I will probably cling to 
it 'till the end.  (I mean the businesses end of course).  To paraphrase 
a known politicians take, 'it is better you talk about the Rhodes in the 
same breath as your complaints, than to not talk about the Rhodes at all'.

I need that.

stan

On 6/28/19 8:14 AM, Michael D. Weisner wrote:
> Graham,
>
> Gee, I knew that you were restoring your boat for some time but I never realized that it was a 1876 model!  Now let's see, that would make Stan about ... approaching 200 years old!  Wow!
>
> Mike
> s/v Wind Lass ('91)
> Nissequogue River, NY
>
>