[Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown

Steve rhodes2282 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 22 10:21:27 EDT 2004


Jim
If I remember right, Mary Lou has a vang.  I think see
posted some pics a while back.
Steve


--- Jim White <jdwhite at panam.edu> wrote:
> Hi ya'll
> Haven't had a chance to post since putting Le
> Menagerie in the water. We 
> had to replace some of the standing rigging, and
> make some small changes, 
> but finally got through the shakedown about two
> weeks ago. WHAT A BOAT! The 
> R-22 is about the friendliest boat I've ever
> handled!!! Even with our old 
> blown out sails, it still points decently high, and
> downwind with the big 
> genny is tons of fun.
> 
> Fathers day, I took it out into the open Gulf
> (Winds: 12 g 20 / seas-2,3') 
> and had a blast. It was a maze of shallow water, and
> other boats (both sail 
> and power, some large), to get out of the bay, not
> to mention beating the 
> whole way, but she never missed a tack. The Gulf was
> blue and fresh, and we 
> trolled for kingfish for awhile, before heading in
> on the run, 
> wing-on-wing, and then a long reach to Port Isabel.
> Motored into our harbor 
> (the entrance is a nightmare at low tide, it's only
> about 75' wide, and so 
> shallow that even we have to stay to the far port
> side to enter....channel 
> is silted in). BTW the 9.9, 4-stroke Honda is sweet,
> more than enough for 
> the boat....
> 
> We're locked into the summer pattern here, light
> winds and small seas 
> (barring a hurricane "event").  Hoping to sail up to
> Corpus Christi in July 
> (about 120 miles up the coast). Right now I'm
> thinking of adding a vang? Is 
> there something in the archives about that, or has
> anyone else added one 
> (I'm sure you probably have!)...hope I'm not listing
> redundantly!
> 
> Thanks for all of your help and guidance with this
> great boat....
> 
> Jim White
> 
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