Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:44:15 -0400, katy
wrote:


Thanks

It's a genaker. When he found out I was planning to buy one, my
father in law said he would pay for it if he could have design
control. He (deceased now) was a John Deere industrial dealer for many
years. He bought it out of his ad budget.

And the kid, at this time my only grandchild.

Frank
When I still had my grooming business we toyed with the idea of a
hot pink spinnaker with Vogue Dogue (the name of my business)
emblazoned across with a perky poodle.....that is until we priced it
out! Alarming, even if it was tax deductible.....


That would have scared the fleet when you popped it on the downwind
leg.

The custom price uptick wasn't so bad on ours. Came from North sails
and they had a loft in New Orleans.

Too bad the Carpal Tunnel got you. From what we have to pay to get
our standard groomed these days you would be doing fine.

Frank

I was doing fine. Now I do Chopper and that's it...there's a groom
shop right around the corner and for giggles I went in to see what
it costs in the Hampton Roads...gag...90 bucks for a skin job...not
een any scissoring...I was charging 60 for hand scissoring when I
quit. Mr Sails took him in once to PetSmart back in Grand Rapids,
because he wanted to surprise me and save me some trouble...I gagged
at what they did, took Chopper down to the workroom and redid him
completely....

The big cost on the sail was the yards and yards of pink...we were
sharing a finger dock with Max at the time...he would probably have
moved...was thinking about doing the canvas raspeberry, too, but Mr
Sails nixed that one...