Re: M_Boats: Someone tell a story or something..
There's almost nothing better than one of your stories, Connie. Message: 20 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:36:02 -0500 From: Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Someone tell a story or something.. Message-ID: <a478b059-f3f7-6ab3-6f61-d818206897b2@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 9/28/2016 10:00 PM, George Iemmolo wrote: Hi George, We had made a sailor out of our daughter's boyfriend, and he wanted Tripp-Lentsch like ours. He found and bought it in Rochester, NY and asked if we could help him get it to its new home at a marina on Staten Island. With the exuberance of youth, he wanted to go up and start the trip the next weekend. I said whoa.... First lets go up and inspect the ship and see what sort of problems you bought. We drove to Rochester; found the boat; found major problems - rust, water and dirt in the fuel tank that all had to be removed, and the whole fuel system cleaned before we could leave. With that accomplished, we departed the following weekend, with an engine that had a clean fuel system,and which ran reliably. Later I found a totally miss-adjusted gearbox clutch so that it wouldn't stay in forward gear without holding your foot against the shift lever. Toggles were installed above the turnbuckles, and were in the wrong place to do any good. Turnbuckles weren't installed properly so that some tightened by turning them to the left while others had to be turned to the right. All these problems were corrected as we went down the Barge Canal. I asked him what the former owner was, and he said, he was a Quality Control Manager. It became the joke of our sailing gang; never buy a boat from a Quality Control Manager; those are the sorts of problems you get..... It was an interesting trip; mostly under power down the Hudson, because of headwinds, but on our final day we had a glorious sail through the middle of New York Harbor and under the Verrazano Bridge to our Staten Island destination. Happy sailing, Connie
Connie: I am ashamed to hear about the PO being a Quality Manager. Having been one myself at various times and companies in my Manufacturing days I can not believe what you described. He should be drummed out the corps. in front of all the sailors in his home port.😈 Jazz: Kudos on getting them young. I was 16 when I learned to sail and it stuck even though I did not scratch the sailing bug again until my 40's but really got the sailing rash after I retired and have been going strong for the past 20 years Thomas: know what you mean about tricking out the small boat with all the comforts and, systems and technology that we might have experienced in our larger boats. I remember 2 books that cover that subject well. "Sailing Big on a Small Boat" by Jerry Cardwell & "Frugal Yachting" by Larry Brown. I have heard about the "Cayenne Pepper" in bottom paint previously but have not had an opportunity to try it. Being in fresh water the past 10 years I have not found the need. George "We Can Not Control the Wind But We Can Adjust Our Sails" On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:50 PM, David Grah via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
There's almost nothing better than one of your stories, Connie.
Message: 20 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:36:02 -0500 From: Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Someone tell a story or something.. Message-ID: <a478b059-f3f7-6ab3-6f61-d818206897b2@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
On 9/28/2016 10:00 PM, George Iemmolo wrote:
Hi George,
We had made a sailor out of our daughter's boyfriend, and he wanted Tripp-Lentsch like ours. He found and bought it in Rochester, NY and asked if we could help him get it to its new home at a marina on Staten Island.
With the exuberance of youth, he wanted to go up and start the trip the next weekend. I said whoa.... First lets go up and inspect the ship and see what sort of problems you bought.
We drove to Rochester; found the boat; found major problems - rust, water and dirt in the fuel tank that all had to be removed, and the whole fuel system cleaned before we could leave.
With that accomplished, we departed the following weekend, with an engine that had a clean fuel system,and which ran reliably.
Later I found a totally miss-adjusted gearbox clutch so that it wouldn't stay in forward gear without holding your foot against the shift lever.
Toggles were installed above the turnbuckles, and were in the wrong place to do any good. Turnbuckles weren't installed properly so that some tightened by turning them to the left while others had to be turned to the right. All these problems were corrected as we went down the Barge Canal.
I asked him what the former owner was, and he said, he was a Quality Control Manager. It became the joke of our sailing gang; never buy a boat from a Quality Control Manager; those are the sorts of problems you get.....
It was an interesting trip; mostly under power down the Hudson, because of headwinds, but on our final day we had a glorious sail through the middle of New York Harbor and under the Verrazano Bridge to our Staten Island destination.
Happy sailing, Connie
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