Information regarding David Moody's up coming presentation

[Peter A Robinson]

Good afternoon everyone,

 

I wanted to let you know that we have found a site for the presentation by David Moody on "The Moody Legacy".  The folks at Truffles Cafe in Sea Pines have graciously offered us the use of a room for the presentation.  The address is 71 Lighthouse Road, Hilton Head Isle, SC.  Their phone number is 834-671-6136.  Below is a mapquest link which should provide adequate directions to get there.  I was able to reserve the room for 3:00 pm, June 4th.  I hope the place and time will work for those who plan to come for the presentation and camaraderie. Should anyone be sailing in for the rendezvous and need a lift to the restaurant, I will be more than happy to provide shuttle service in my car.  All you need to do is call me on my cell phone 850-324-8506 and I will pick you up.

 

I really appreciate Mr. Moody taking time out of his vacation to meet with us.  I am optimistically hoping we have a good turnout for this gathering.  As I mentioned in an earlier email, it's a 10 hour drive for my wife and I, but we consider it a special event that makes the extra effort worthwhile.

 

I would like to thank Jeff Dowling and Jenny Swearingen who have spent time searching for a location to host the event.  I have to admit I had no idea where to start.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?cat=Truffles+Market&address=71+Lighthouse+Rd&city=Hilton+Head+Isle&state=SC&zipcode=29928

 

I'm sure you will have noticed that there is an attachment on this email.  I just received this newsletter from the South West Branch of the MOA in the UK and thought you might find it interesting. 

 

Have a great weekend and I hope to meet a good number of you on June 4th in Hilton Head.

 

Peter Robinson

Captain, MOA, America's Branch

 

 

[Peter A Robinson]

Things are moving along for our rendezvous in Hilton Head, SC! For those of you on the West Coast and those on the East Coast that can't make it, I will try to video the presentation and make it available (somehow or other).

 

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Moody <david...@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Information regarding David Moody's up coming presentation
To: Peter A Robinson <robinson...@gmail.com>

Dear Peter

 

Thank you for your email and for organising the event.

 

I know it is easy to under-estimate the distances you sometimes have to travel in the USA and I do appreciate that you and other members will be undertaking considerable journeys to hear my talk and we will just have to make the presentation extra special for you all!

 

I have looked at the website for Truffles and it looks great. It is also not far from where we are staying so we will have no problem being there between 2.30 and 3pm and have no further plans for that day so our time is yours.

 
Please pass on my thanks also to Jeff Dowling and Jenny Swearingen for their help.

 

From a technical perspective, would it be possible for me to have the use of a laptop with Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation loaded, together with a projector and screen for the presentation? It is my intention to download my master copy of the presentation onto a memory stick and also a CD ROM as backup and I trust this will work.

 

It seems to me that it is important to have computer that can read my memory stick and also for the computer to be able to talk to the chosen projector!

 

I will take your mobile phone number with me and my mobile - I have not used this phone in the USA before, so hope it works ok. We will be picking up our emails from time to time, if all else fails.

 

Irene and I very much look forward to meeting as many of you as possible on 4th.

 

Kindest

 

 

David

 

 

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From: Peter A Robinson <robinson...@gmail.com>
To: moody-owners-associat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: david...@btinternet.com; jswear...@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, 6 May, 2011 22:07:30
Subject: Information regarding David Moody's up coming presentation

[Roy Peterson]

Hi Peter,

Sorry we will not be able to make the meeting at Hilton Head.  Stephanie's oncologist reported that she is doing very good and doesn't want to see her again for six months.   As you might image, we took that as a "Get out of jail for free!"   We are now in Charleston, SC and heading further north as weather allows.  

Unbelievable sail yesterday!  We'd been waiting for a weather window to head north and when I looked at Passagemaker.com in the morning, it said it was a good day to go... at least as far a Charleston, SC.   We were anchored behind Amelia Island for the night and made the decision to go.  After a year of medical stuff it was unbelievable to be greeted by leaping Manta Rays and Dolphin as we made our way out of the St. Mary River Inlet.  The  ESE wind on the nose and the current against us made the five mile trip from the ICW to sea seem to take forever.  But when we turned to 040 true and on to the rhumb line for Charleston it was amazing.  The engine was quickly shutdown, full sails, wind just a touch forward of the beam at 8-12 knots.  We started at 5 knots ground speed and didn't see less then 6 knots for the next sixteen hours, peaking at 7.9 knots.  Fantasy sailing at it's best!

During my night watch the winds shifted from a beam reach to a broad reach and by midnight it was down to 4-5 knots ground speed.  Stephanie took the watch at midnight and within two hours the wind was dead astern and with the confused seas the sails started flogging .  She woke me and I set the whisker pole for downwind sailing and it worked until around 0530 when we finally tired of the flogging sails and started the engine.  We motored the last 50 miles to Charleston, but it was still so good to be underway again!

Hope you have a great gathering and look forward to the video.  

We plan on working at he Annapolis Boat Show again this October.  That would be another great opportunity for a Moody America's gathering.

Cheers,

Pete & Stephanie

s/y "Brilliant"

Moody 425

[Matt Salatino]

Glad to hear you guys are on the road again. Good for you! By the way, replaced all my keel bolts. Had to cut three of the nuts off as they were rusted to the washer plates and the impact wrench rounded the nuts.  After cutting the nuts half off, they came off easily and the studs came out easily. Didn't drop the keel.  After viewing all the studs and seeing they were  clean, I realized there were no leaks to the bolts.  I ground back about 1/4 to 3/8 inch in the seam, cleaned the metal keel real well in the interface, and recaulked with 5200.  By the way, I primed the top few inches of the studs and the nuts so I could get something to stick to them later when I decide what to paint them with. Also replaced all the underwater seacocks.  Some of the mounting holes were impossible to access with even a 1 foot long drill bit, so I screwed in the mushroom fittings from the inside with the seacock on the outside and drilled the holes from the outside.  Worked great. Bolts are all in, Seacocks are all in. Painting bottom, polishing topsides and adding a new bootstripe, then splash hopefully next weekend. That will be SIX WEEKS on the hard!  Phew! Hopefully never have to do this kind of thing again, and hopefully no bottom paint for 10 years. Hope your summer goes fine. I look forward to seeing you at Annapolis this October. Hi to Stephanie.. Matt --- On Fri, 5/13/11, Roy Peterson <brilli...@hotmail.com> wrote: