Lee,
Speaking of rain. After many years of draught, South Carolina has had an  
abundance of rain in June. So far we have received 9 1/2" of rain at our 
house.  The lake was down almost 18' at one point and is now 1 1/2' above full 
pool. It  sure has kept me busy moving our dock. I said that I would never 
complain about  rain ever again, but come on man, enough is enough already. I 
don't have a  garage large enough to put the Rhodes inside, so all the work 
has to be done  outside. Rum Runner is still sitting on the trailer in the 
yard. Hopefully we  will get enough dry weather that I can do some 
maintenance and dunk her really  soon.
 
Rummy
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/11/2013 1:28:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
LKUHN at cnmc.org writes:

Shawn,

I went out in the pouring rain yesterday (what I  won't sacrifice for this
list) and quickly measured the distance at exactly  24" between the
backstays.

Now after drying off and rereading your  post we must be comparing apples to
oranges.  If I had a 27" gap my  backstays would be totally loose and I 
can't
imagine a 36" spread.

I  think we also need to measure from the top of the mast to the  backstays'
pootie tangs, and I ain't doing that rain or shine.

Good  luck!

Lee




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