[Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...

[Mike Meinhold]

Gord

I can go out soon and measure. I have Mike Lehman’s old dodger.  Rinn Duin
is still on the mooring

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 18:12 Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> NO!
>
> There will be no full cockpit enclosure (aka ‘oxygen tent’)  And there
> will be no cockpit cushions.  A man must draw the line somewhere…
>
>
>
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
> 705-527-9612
>
>
>
> > On Dec 14, 2022, at 5:58 PM, Rod Symmes via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh my...........  next Gord will be installing an oxygen tent !
> > and then it will be pressurized hot water.
> > What is the world coming to?
> >
> > On the other hand ......... if you are forgetting where you wrote it
> down,  maybe it is time you put some shade over your head.  (-:
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Galaxy
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> > Date: 2022-12-14 5:33 p.m. (GMT-05:00)
> > To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> >
> > Cc: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> > Subject: [Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...
> >
> > Hello shipmates,
> >
> > So there I was, deciding at last to order myself a dodger for SURPRISE.
> Once upon a time I despised fibreglass boats (but now I have one) I
> despised aluminium masts (but now I have one) I despised standing headroom
> down below (and now I have it) and I especially despised inboard engines,
> roller furling headsails and wheel steering (and now I have and enjoy all
> of them).
> >
> > I’m ordering my dodger from Nat Genco… whose family made making dodgers
> and other canvass work for Whitby Boatworks products since both Whitby Boat
> Works and Genco Marine started at about the same time.  They know Alberg 30
> like nobody else.
> >
> > I knew that Nat would need to know the comfortable height of my boom
> above the companionway in order to most correctly determine the height of
> my dodger… and oh wasn’t I chuckling to myself a month ago about how clever
> I am when I remembered to measure that height before I was asked for it.
> >
> > I did measure it… but what did I do with the results of that
> measurement?  I do recall writing it down on something…
> >
> > So, would any of you southern American brethren who still have their
> rigs up care to do me the great favour of sending me the measurement
> between the top of the closed companionway slider, and the underside of
> their boom, and maybe a picture of their boat broadside so I can reckon how
> close your boom at rest is to mine?
> >
> > Gord
> > Surprise 426
> >
> >
> > Gordon Laco
> > www.gordonlaco.com<http://www.gordonlaco.com>
> > 705-527-9612
> >
> >
> >
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