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

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks, friends.



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



> On Dec 14, 2022, at 8:26 PM, Mike Meinhold via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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