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Turk
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Initially Posted - 04/18/2009 :  04:50:37  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
Launch Day! Launch Day!! Launch Day!!!!





72 degrees and sunny and it's OHIO!!

Launch Day!

(Sorry for the no content post, but I had to.)
Turk



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2003 C250 WK #663
Northeast Ohio
Mosquito Lake/Lake Erie
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/18/2009 :  06:17:39  Show Profile
<font size="4"><font color="red"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Ah-OOOO-ga! Ah-OOOO-ga!</font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="red"></font id="size4">

(Oh--I guess that's the wrong signal. )
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 04/18/2009 :  06:35:30  Show Profile
Congratulations Turk. The long winter is over. Post pictures!
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Turk
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  05:45:34  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
Well, she's in the water and tied up to the dock. I arrived at the state park at 8:00 am and got her in the water at around 2:00 pm. The Admiral usually helps me but was of at a conference yesterday. I had to go it alone. I took it nice and slow but it went off with out a hitch. No forgetting to tie the toping lift or adding the windex after raising the mast. No messing up the halyards (front back of spreaders) and I even remembered to put the plug in before launching at the boat ramp! (of course there's no plug )

I have a wing keel and believe me, a hundred times up and down the ladder has taken it's toll.

Today I have to tell you I'm beat up! I'm sore all over and my hands are cracked, scraped, and bruised. Why do we do this???

I have to admit, I wasn't afraid to tackle this job for the first time by myself, but I don't think I will ever do that again. It is a lot of work especially when you drop a cotter ring to the ground three times before you get it on the pin. My wife today couldn't stop laughing as I moaned and groaned when I got out of bed. She should have treated me like the homecoming of the captain that just sacrificed himself to save his crew in Somalia.

I turn 57 next month. I'm not that old!!!
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  06:58:36  Show Profile
You are right, putting up the stick and all the other work is a tough job - even for a young man like yourself. The Admiral is teasing you because she is secretly pleased that it was tough without her.

Isn't it funny that with all it takes to prep and launch that those darn cotter pins create such an ordeal?

Anyway, you are in. Now go sailing!
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  08:04:31  Show Profile
"Tis better to drop the cotter
than to drop the clevis"

Old cross stitch saying.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  09:09:26  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Last time we put SL in the water, I hung the rudder on the transom and managed to lose the pin. The launch has a nice grassy area that we back the stern out over, which is perfect for hiding the hitch pin that I asked Rita to toss to me. It bounced & we never saw it again. I ended up using a galvanized hitch pin from my spares in the truck.

We always ache after getting the boat into or out of the water. I'm nearly 50, and Rita already is. I usually hurt a bit after a day of sailing as well, I even managed to get a little sunburnt yesterday while working on the boat for a couple of hours.
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Turk
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  09:19:41  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
OK, someone out there needs to perfect a better cotter pin!

And as for you Mr NautiDuck, I can get the "stick" up just fine!
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bear
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  10:00:54  Show Profile
Launch in upstate N.Y. in two weeks, 67 years old and I do it all except step the mast. Been that way the past couple of years. Planet Fitness attendance does aleve some of the pain. I do take my time though even if it goes into a second day.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  10:37:23  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
You know, we trailer sailors are wondering what the fuss is about

Paul
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 04/19/2009 :  19:21:10  Show Profile
Paul, I don't know how you trailer sailors do it. I'm sure, though, that you've developed a real routine to it that makes it very efficient. Bear, we're with you - we take two days and we still ache!
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John P
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Response Posted - 04/20/2009 :  09:36:40  Show Profile  Visit John P's Homepage
Uh, did yardwork and some roof shingling yesterday and I am hurting....Does that count for a 40 yr old?

Ha! I have to laugh because every time I work on my boat (either launch, sail, or just fart around) I always come home with new cuts and bruises and achy muscles. yet I love every minute of it!
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