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

[Mike Meinhold]

Me too Paul. !

See you out the there this winter!

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 19:58 dcmcrider <dcmcrider at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gord,
>
> I can do likewise at the weekend. Boat is in her slip, dodger still up. I
> have fantasies about squeezing in one sail over the holidays, if the wx
> cooperates.
>
> Paul / Slainte #129
> Annapolis
>
>
>
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S9, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mike Meinhold via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: 12/14/22 18:16 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Cc: Mike Meinhold <meinhold272 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...
>
> 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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