Support for Rod Collins' Recovery

[IStream]

As everyone here is probably aware, Rod suffered a stroke in December. He survived but is paralyzed on his left side. With Marinehowto.com effectively shut down, he has no income. You can contribute to his recovery fund here:

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[jssailem]

We receive some great news yesterday.
Rod posted on the SBO forum again sharing his insights into solving boat electrical issues.

12v system rewire including Balmar SG200, ACR, Solar, 1/2/B Switch and On/Off Switch

The ACR also has a low voltage threshold. If the voltage goes below 9.5v the battery is locked out, effectively isolating it from the rest of the system. I agree. Now if I turn on my battery charger it will supply 13.6 volts to the positive busbar. ACR should see that voltage and connect to the...

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[Scott B]

We also put a banner at the top of the Forums. This is the page set up in SBO to direct people to his site.

SailboatOwners.com

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[Peggie Hall HeadMistress]

We receive some great news yesterday.
Rod posted on the SBO forum again sharing his insights into solving boat electrical issues.

That's indeed WONDERFUL news! Not only says a lot about his cognitive and communication abilities, but also about his attitude!

 

[Peggie Hall HeadMistress]

It just occurred to me that if Rod is posting, we can reply to him. I may be wrong, but I strongly suspect he'd love to hear directly from sbo.com members.

--Peggie

 

[shemandr]

Yes! When you hear of someone who has suffered a stroke you don't know what the damage is. It is a great relief to see Mainsail's post which indicates to us that he is mentally in the game. He had the answer to the question about the ARC which is such good news. Yes, he has challenges ahead. But as he said he's thankful be be with us and we are all thankful to have him with us. It's Christmas time. Do the right thing.

 

[LouisMK]

I was surprised to see the late date posts show up today, more than a month old. For what its worth, and I do wish Rod well, I’ve tried to contact him several times about purchasing an alternator and haven’t heard anything back.

 

[kappykaplan]

I was surprised to see the late date posts show up today, more than a month old. For what its worth, and I do wish Rod well, I’ve tried to contact him several times about purchasing an alternator and haven’t heard anything back.

In this thread, Rodd stated that he lost his business (post #42).

More on Maine Sail

Rodd, so great to hear from you. I think if anyone would pull off a miracle like that you'd be the one to figure out a way to do it.

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[LouisMK]

I wonder if there is anything we can do to help him save the business or is it totally gone?

 

[Maine Sail]

I was surprised to see the late date posts show up today, more than a month old. For what its worth, and I do wish Rod well, I’ve tried to contact him several times about purchasing an alternator and haven’t heard anything back.

currently my brother is answering any business emails because I am unable to. This is due to what is called brain fatigue. working on a computer for more than about 30 minutes at a time is kinda like my brain going to Vegas right now. It wears me out to the point that I need to take a nap for about an hour.

The reason you can't get a hold of me is all explained right here: https://marinehowto.com/I'm working my way up to answering emails but that could still be months out. For now I'm answering the occasional form post as long as it's quick and easy. I'm also still learning speech to text software because I can no longer type.

https://marinehowto.com/

 

[shemandr]

But your punctuation is good. (That's a reference to the funny Friday thread going on)

 

[shemandr]

. But your punctuation is good. (That's a reference to the funny Friday thread going on)

That's the Etiquette Thread.

 

[Maine Sail]

Don't take it personally. In one of his posts he's only able to support folks doing local pickup for items left in his business. I read one post that seemed to infer a family member is helping out with that, so its not really feasible to expect them to respond to non-local requests for purchases, no matter how well intentioned. His situation occurred some time prior to the fall, from what I can gather, so its been roughly 6 mos or so that he's been laid up. If your inquiries were within the last 6 mos I think you can understand why he wasn't responsive.

My stroke happened on September 1 and my business has been closed since. I do have some inventory left but it's for local pick-up sales only

 

[njlarry]

God bless. Hope you recover soon.
We all owe RC our support. His advice has saved much time and costs.