[Public-List] End of 2014

[Dominic Amann via Public-List]

A good reminder - I use gmail, and I just checked my spam folder a couple
of days ago and found a whole load of e-mails from people and companies
that I deal with.

It pays to check your spam once in a while.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Hello Fraser - sorry for the tardy response, I just saw your message.
>
> I sail on Georgian Bay out of Midland.
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
>
> On 31/12/14 11:07 AM, "Fraser Kittson" <fkittson at bell.net> wrote:
>
> > I sail out of Port Credit Harbour. Where do you sail from Gordon. 1978
> Alberg
> > S/V Dream'n
> >
> > Fraser Kittson
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List
> >> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good morning friends....
> >>
> >> I¹m looking forward to 2015 and hope you are too.....  I noted our new
> >> correspondent's message about replacing toe rails.... I¹ve declared
> aloud
> >> here at our house that I¹m going to declare war on our deck edge leaks
> this
> >> year.  This will involve repairing the leaks under the six life line
> >> stanchion bases as well as under the toe rail.  The rail is very thin
> from
> >> decades of sanding so I¹m shaping up to replace it after doing a cloth
> tape
> >> and epoxy job on the joint.   Compared to what I¹m doing with the wooden
> >> boat this shouldn¹t be too horrible a job (except for getting at the
> genoa
> >> track bolts adjacent to the second fuel tank I put in on the port side
> a few
> >> years ago).
> >>
> >> There.  I¹ve said this aloud (again).  Maybe I¹ll do it this year....
> >>
> >> One of my sons bought me William F. Buckley¹s AIRBORNE, A SENTIMENTAL
> >> JOURNEY for Christmas.  I can¹t believe I¹ve not read this great book
> >> before.  I¹ve been aware of it since it was first published, have held a
> >> copy in my hand in various book stores over the years, but have to
> admit I
> >> was put off it three ways.  One was that reviews commented on the
> luxury of
> >> the yacht (the schooner CYRANO which among other things sported a piano)
> >> This offended the younger me with regard to a belief that one should
> suffer
> >> when at sea.  Another problem I had was the cover illustration, which
> >> didn¹t, I thought, make the boat look attractive to my eye (yes, I was
> and
> >> perhaps still am that picky) Last, Buckley seemed to me to represent
> what I
> >> thought in my student days was an incomprehensible and distasteful
> political
> >> viewpoint.
> >>
> >> Well I¹m most of the way through the book already, and have to say it¹s
> a
> >> wonderful read.  Whatever Buckley was politically, he was a very witty
> >> writer and his love of seamanship has overshadowed whatever it was that
> >> repelled me thirty years ago.  I can even overlook the luxurious
> >> appointments of his yacht.
> >>
> >> Hope you all have a great New Year¹s eve, and I¹m looking forward to
> sharing
> >> sailing and yacht maintenance stories with you next year.
> >>
> >> Bye for now -
> >>
> >> Gord
> >> #426 Surprise
> >>
> >> PS I was driving through Burlington Ontario yesterday and saw a white
> hulled
> >> A30 under a tarp on a driveway ­ does she belong to anyone on this list?
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