On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:16:47 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Broke his tiller and then his boom. Otherwise, doing fine.

Don't bother commenting, Neal, it's pretty clear after the posts of the past
couple of days that the yellow boat never made it past the breakwater.

Oh, but Neal could tell you all about how he fixed HIS boom! It's a
comedy classic!

The prelude: He broke his boom by trying to convert to mid boom
sheeting.

The repair included several lengths of water pipe jammed inside to
join the two halves. The boom has a decided banana shape to it - in
addition to all the other deficits associated with heavy, rusting
steel pipes inside an aluminum boom in a salt and water environment.

wrote

The repair included several lengths of water pipe jammed inside to
join the two halves. The boom has a decided banana shape to it - in
addition to all the other deficits associated with heavy, rusting
steel pipes inside an aluminum boom in a salt and water environment.


Oh! That's what he meant by the "specially reinforced boom" on his "blue
water pocket ocean cruiser".

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Roger Long