Aw thanks and I have so much to learn..
Today I learned that the PBO which is totally protected and seemed a good idea is not --as it hates to take a load if it is over 15 degrees off ...meaning it won't like my masts!
Oh my boat is so pretty, She got her first coat of paint- the top coat, today .There are so many coats of primer, I lost count.. .Roon will have three to four coats of LP. .The cabin top was also painted.
I am really excited to think that in not too long I can sail her! I have all the original charts with the hand drawn navigation done by the original owner...Roon was made for a husband and wife to cruise with no other help...they went everywhere, spent every winter in Cuba, they traveled to Central America! The rest of the time they kept her in New York. I found a beginning of an autobiography written by R S Kellogg. He loved the boat. It gives me chills to think that this is the very same boat and she belongs to me!
I have gathered as many stories as I can about her travels, her repairs, to being sailed upon the rocks by other owners, and how the selling of her provided a regretful but financially healthy retirement to Kellogg.
She was well loved at one point, she looked horrible when I got her but I will post a picture in the future if it is OK! I swear the boat smiles.
I have returned her to her original name, I was at one point worried that the name came from the German Cruising boat that fired upon my "family's" home town of Hartlepool. It just would not have gone over well. Roon was named for the God of Going... a God in the book by the Lord of Dunsany in 1902, The Gods of Pegana. It reads like the Hobbit and truly Tolkien said that this book inspired him. Roon was not a God that sat by the fire, he was greater than the land gods and stood higher than they. I got this all from the autobiography began by Kellogg... amazing that I found it.. I think this boat waited for me.
Let me know the protocol for speaking with you and I will follow it and perhaps you can give me some well needed advise.
Thank you for understanding how important this is to me. I want to do the right thing, I don't want to hurt her and I want to preserve what I can.
April
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