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

[Bob Weber]

Jim, I have a vang and recommend one to anyone who wants to have good sail 
shape.  The arrangement is simple.  First there is a pad eye on the 
underside of the boom.  The mast fitting slides down the groove in the mast 
with a stopper slid in on top of it.  Both of these fittings are on top of 
the poptop slider.  Therefore the poptop must be down to use the vang.  You 
attach a 4:1 purchase to the pad eye on the boom and the sliding shackle on 
the mast and tighten down the stopper to keep it from sliding up toward the 
gooseneck.  I have never seen the "shackle" which slides into the mast 
groove before this boat so my discription might not sound clear.  I will 
provide pictures if you need.  Bob Weber


>From: Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:21:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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