[Rhodes22-list] A final question on the Rhodes 22

[Julie Thorndycraft]

Bary,
My husband is 6'2+ and weighs 250 and I'm 5'8 and I'm not going to admit
what I weigh but it's more than your wife. We sleep comfortably in the cabin
and have done so many times - and that included when I was healing broken
ribs. As for coffee, you can make it without getting out of bed - so you can
have it both ways. Dan always stays in bed longer than I do and it hasn't
been an issue at all. We get the OJ out of the icebox and put the water on
the stove, all without moving much of anything. We do have the pop-top
enclosure and that is mandatory.

On the other hand, your wife is small enough that she could easily sleep
comfortably in the v-berth. But I would think that you might have difficulty
getting into it just because the height between the cushions and ceiling is
not overly generous. Maybe our cushions are just too thick. I've slept up
there once but prefer the main area.

Hope that helps,
Julie
s/v Blue Loon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bary Cote and Family" <bcote at lighthouse.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:51 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] A final question on the Rhodes 22


Bill,
Thanks for patiently answering my question on the falling CB.  Now the
question that is keeping my wife from agreeing to buy the Rhodes:

Where can we sleep without reorganizing the cabin?

I'm 6'3 (295 lbs) and my wife is 5'2" 125 lbs.

We read with great interest Mary Lou's writing about Fretless in "Sailing
Small".  In that writing, she mentioned that the dinette becomes a "Small
Double Bed".  She stated that both her and her husband were small persons,
so that was probably not an issue.

Not so with us.  Also, my wife hates the idea of sitting up the bed and
taking down the dinette when we lay down.  On our Columbia C-22, we slept
very comfortably in the V-birth.  I always got up first (being a morning
person) and would sit at the table and sip coffee while talking to my wife
who preferred to lay in bed and talk until she was awake enough to get up.

On the Rhodes, can the V-birth be extended enough to allow 2 normal sized
people (like us) to sleep, so the dinette can be saved for morning wake up
time?

This seems like a small and silly matter, but to my wife and I, who really
enjoy over-nighting on a boat, it is of vital importance.

Thanks,
Bary

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of values."
                 --Albert Einstein
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