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

[Gordon Laco]

Thank you



Gordon Laco
www.gordonlaco.com
705-527-9612



> On Dec 14, 2022, at 6:15 PM, Mike Meinhold <meinhold272 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>>
> > Cc: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net <mailto: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/><http://www.gordonlaco.com <http://www.gordonlaco.com/>>
> > 705-527-9612
> > 
> > 
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