[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Gordon Laco]

San Diego Bay?  If so, I'd be glad to see you and your boat when I'm there
in a few weeks

Gord #426 Surprise



On 18/01/14 4:50 PM, "Andre Ballowe" <efficientair at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in the Bay Area.....
> 
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
>> Where in California are you?   I sit on the board of Tall Ships America
>> and will be attending the conference & AGM in San Diego Feb 2-5
>> 
>> Gord Surprise #426
>> 
>> On 2014-01-10, at 10:27 PM, Andre Ballowe <efficientair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry to here of the cold plight.
>>> 
>>> Being here in the often slighted state of California,  by me as well, it
>>> does feel good though,  in a sightly ha ha vein, to be enjoying such nice
>>> weather and appling my 4th coat of varnish on the rails this week.
>>> Here is to counting the day's until June.
>>> On Jan 10, 2014 7:15 PM, "daniel joseph walker" <dsailormon at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So do u do Chicago?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello gang -
>>>>> 
>>>>> I¹m firmly ensconced here in my booth at the Toronto International Boat
>>>>> Show....if any of you come to the show I¹d like to see you.    All¹s
>> well
>>>>> and I¹m looking forward to the week but for one thing.  Earlier this
>> week
>>>> we
>>>>> had a snow storm in Midland like I¹ve never seen.  Four feet of snow
>> fell
>>>>> over two days.  I was looking at the thickness of the snow cap on our
>>>> house,
>>>>> and then I remembered Touch Wood in her temporary shed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Did I make those undressed 2x4 roof beams well enough?  Did I put
>> enough
>>>>> bracing into the structure?   Well the answer is no.  The shed
>> collapsed
>>>> and
>>>>> TW is beneath several tons of ice, snow, and the wreckage of the
>> building.
>>>>> I couldn¹t get to her to see how bad things are, but I could see that
>> the
>>>>> roof is completely down.  I hope that so long as she didn¹t fall over,
>> she
>>>>> may have survived.  However all my tools are buried in the snow.  I
>>>> couldn¹t
>>>>> dig into the ruin because I had to get here to the show....and guess
>> what.
>>>>> There¹s going to be a thaw with heavy rain this weekend.... Then a deep
>>>>> freeze again.  I reckon whatever shape she¹s in she¹ll have to bear
>> till
>>>>> March when things start warming up.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am so glad her mast wasn¹t in the shed.... I can¹t believe this has
>>>>> happened.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gord #426 Surprise
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