[Rhodes22-list] Is there a Rhodes 22 in northern Ohio thatwecansee?

[Rik Sandberg]

Rummy,

No, not really. I do miss many of the great features that were on our 
R22. BUT, you know everybody always talks about all boats being a 
compromise. When we bought the R22 we thought we could compromise 
between a live aboard type boat (winter) and a quick easy daysailer 
(summer). It's true, the R22 could fulfill both of these roles if she 
had to, but not as well as a boat that is really made for each specific 
task.

I found that I was not sailing in the summer because the R22 took too 
long to set up. Now don't get me wrong here. The R22 is not hard to set 
up "_for a 22 foot boat_" !! I was perfectly happy to take the R22 out 
and set it up for an all day thing. Trouble is, in the summer lately, I 
never seem to have all day. I usually can get more like 4 hours. That's 
not enough time for the R22, so I bought a little old Montgomery 15. I 
can set up the M-15 in about 15 minutes, literally with one hand and no 
mechanical assistance. I didn't go out this week, had a cold and didn't 
feel all that great, but I have been out a half dozen times in the 
evenings (4 hour stretches) in the last month, with the M-15. In our 
area, there is really no possibility of keeping the boat in a slip and 
just jumping on and going, like you can do. Here we have to trailer, 
every time.

Then there's the Flicka. Smaller, yet bigger. Can go anywhere. 6,000 
lbs. instead of 3,000 lbs. Full time standing head room. Storage space 
that would rival even the R22. BUT, not very trailerable. You can do it, 
but it's a lot of work and ramp launching is not really something I want 
to get into with this boat. But it kinda gets back to Bill's puzzle 
thing again. When you are planning to be on a boat for a longer period 
of time, say a month, I, at least, want to be able to put things 
someplace and leave them there. In our R22 we would have to make up the 
bed every night, for example. It was simple enough to do and it worked 
very well, but I wanted to be able to have a bed that was there all the 
time.

I always loved our R22 and I will always speak highly of her. She was an 
excellent sailer and really an all round good boat. I may not have sold 
her if someone had not come along and made a good offer for her. What I 
found was that I wanted to compromise less. It took 2 boats to replace 
our R 22, but find I am now truly compromising less. It took us three 
years to figure out what we really wanted/needed from our boat(s). What 
I think we really learned is that we needed 2 boats to do what we do, 
the way we want to do it.

Make sense??  :-)

Rik

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

> Rik,
> Am I understanding that you might be suffering from buyers remorse and 
> would really like your R22 back?
>  
> Rummy