Okay, I've got a P-15 and I'll bite.
Mary Rickman-Taylor (coalinga@inreach.com)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:05:23 -0800
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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In order on the proposed P-15 topics, at my age, and at my weight (okay
so I am not as svelt as I was when first I learned to sail) I thought
that the reason we had Potters was so we didn't have to go aloft--and
with the exception of people trying to circumnavigate the US I figured
that I really wouldn't want a bos'n's chair. To point number two, I use
bleach, when my foredeck gets dingy [oh, you know what I mean] actually,
we stow the boarding ladder on top of the cabin, and since we do not
have a pulpit, we limit our forward running around to docking moments,
and as far as needing a dingy, again, see point one--that's why I own a
Potter, it will make a grand dingy when I win the lottery and buy the
BIG sailboat; and then to point three, I use bow and stern thrusters
(aka, the grandkids) only on those rare occasions when the wind is too
still, and they need to cool off anyhow--refer to point two, i.e. the
need for the boarding ladder.
Well that said and done, I do have a couple of questions. When removing
the wooden rails of the cockpit to refinish them, is there an easier way
than for me to send the better half of our team into the squishy space
under the seats and let him work up a good sweat? Also, any ideas where
we might get the rounded corners for the rub-rails at the stern, it
seems that Pyro Tech had lost them somewhere along the way in the years
before we owned her.
Thanks
Mary (& Randy) P-15, #831, Pyro Tech
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