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Ric Stott


Outhaul car AND GB

2023-05-26; 15:46:06 EDT

Member Since

2013-07-01

Posts: 431

I’ve been in touch with both Stan and Charles recently.
In fact Stan emailed me today (a poignant and touching email)  sighing that things are not what they used to be.
I'm looking for the Boom connector and Pop-top connector for the IMF mast and had email them both.
Anyone?
Stan is cordial and witty but needs help as his 97 year old body decelerates faster than his brain.
He invited me to visit and rummage through his parts boxes but could not come up with the two things I need.
His email to me was not personal per se, so I will copy/paste it below in hopes he is not offended by that.
Stan  - I have so much respect for you.
I wish you had backup and a plan to transition your wonderful GB plant. You’re great engineer, designer, mechanic and sailor & inventor. Ric
Dadventure
HBNY

Can you get to plant?  Any time is OK; weekday or weekend.  Lots of used stuff here to look through.

Yeah, I am still here but no one else is.  All deceased or ailing or retired or deported.  Demand for Rhodes at historic highs and have to turn them all away. No success with partnering. Lots of drooling Rhodies but none with wives like my late Rose . I need to find a divorced candidate before he remarries.   At 97 my body is just not as productive as it was at 91.  However the brain can't stop innovating; new features for the boat, new divisions to expand the business.  I feel sorry for those who make the pilgrimage; look, listen and grasp what is here, leave with a glow that says 'I can't wait to get started' only to have to send me a tear stained email that every member of his family threatens to divorce him rather than change schools, give up friends and neighbors as well as what they have come to call their home.

If you do decide to come and your wife will be joining you to keep you company I can entertain her with Rose stories while you rummage. Ladies seem to love to hear our unconventional love story between such an odd couple: Rose a hill billy RN from Roanoke VA.  Me, a kid from the fishing section of Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay, just back from serving my country in WW11 and no idea what I was going to do with my life.

I have been attempting to get back to you for  weeks between endless interruptions with only me to field so I am going hit send and leave the Rose and stan stories for another time; most off  beat as to be interesting, others, like our show business career, quite funny.  Are you aged to remember Johnny Ray?

stan
Richard F. Stott, AIA, LEED AP
ric at stottarchitecture.com
O -631-283-1777
C- 516-965-3164
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