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September 2008 Newsletter By Harold Aune VPContest: Why Rowing Makes Sense to YouWe can think of all kinds of reasons why rowing is a recreational sport that’s growing at a phenomenal rate right now, but we’d like to know what our subscribers and boat owners have to say on this.Submit your 150 max word stories with or without the following – poetry, photos, cartoons, or video footage - by November 30th, 2008 and we will send the first 10 submitters their choice of a Whitehall Ball Cap and Whitehall T Shirt or a Gel Slide Seat Rowing Cushion. Your photos, cartoons or video footage are also welcome on their own, as long as they fit our contest theme. The official winner of the contest will be awarded a Stormy Seas Inflatable Life Vest. Your submissions may also be used in one of our upcoming Enews editions. Alice in ItalyHere’s a wonderful letter from Raul Barbieri in Italy who is the happy owner of ‘Alice ‘ a Tyee 14 sailing model. After seeing the beautiful pictures he sent I think that a nice summer holiday in Italy would be a truly good thing for the soul.Dear Marie and Andrea We have just returned from a splendid holiday to the Isle of Elba on Alice. We sailed and rowed along the coast for nearly a month, and sometimes even used the motor. Alice is unbeatable for rowing. Everywhere we went Alice received enthusiastic compliments. Alice has a wide forepeak that we made great use of and it confirmed our correct choice of boat. Alice is beautiful and her harmonious and classic lines have a fascination that is lacking in modern boats. Looking at Alice one can understand the care and love that went into her making: the apparent simplicity of detail denotes careful study to identify simple and perfect solutions, the working, both of the glass fiber and of the wooden parts, has a truly amazing finish. We sailed with only the mainsail, without using the jib, because we didn’t know where to make fast its sheets. The ideal solution would be to fit a cam jam cleats on each side… could you help us and indicate how and where to mount them? (This has since been done - Harold) Under the mainsail Alice proved well balanced and more confident than we expected… only, sometimes, we had some difficulty in tacking… occasionally we had to intervene with the oars… not wonderful, but it worked. We really appreciated the very soft sheets. We are also very pleased with the Sunbrella Rudder Bag and Boom Cover… they are very well made and the plum colour together with sea blue and the white of the hull is truly outstanding. Thank you and your staff for having built Alice so well. Best regards Raul        The Lake Union ‘Flotilla of Fun’Marie and I drove down to Seattle’s Lake Union and met up with Bob and Marcia Dunshee, our Solo demo rep Max Schneider and her friend Maureen as well as old buddy Megumi Ogo and her friend Jeremy. We launched our “Flotilla of Fun” at the Sunshine Street launch ramp near Gasworks Park. The weather was perfect and the Lake was packed with boats of all descriptions. We rowed past hundreds of houseboats, shipyards and marinas accompanied by kayaks, sailboats, power cruisers and floatplanes all the way down to the south end of the lake. There we visited the Center for Wooden Boats and also the NMTA Boats Afloat Show just next door where hundreds of new yachts were on display. Next year Whitehall plans to set up a display at the show. After a tasty cold lemonade we headed back up the lake. Bob and Marcia hauled up their beautiful tanbark sail rig and flew right along. It was a blast and could not have been more fun as the pictures below show.      |
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