[Rhodes22-list] bob mellor - some information

[Bob Dietrich]

Hi Bob, I live next door to you in Easton PA.  Want to go for a ride, give 
me a call at 610 253-4317.  Glad to take you out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobmellor" <rhmello at aol.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] bob mellor - some information


>
> ed
>
> thanks for the quick response.... took me a while to find this list.
>
> actually i have already exchanged emails w/ stan...   i'm starting off
> looking in the $10-15K range, he has nothing now, but said probably in
> summer or fall....  offered some inexpensive non rhodes boats for spring 
> w/
> trade in within 2 years....
>
> (i agree w/ your potter comments... the one i looked at last weekend was 
> on
> trailer, so the mast was in crutch and the centerboard up....  kind of 
> hard
> to move around in there... hard to tell what it might be like with mast 
> and
> centerboard up.)
>
> ride offer would definately be worth the rum..... but its a pretty good 
> haul
> from pa. (although i was down in cowpens for business a couple of times 
> this
> past year.)
>
> I have read a ton about the rhodes.  It sounds like exactly what i would
> want, but have yet to see one..
>
> as a quick intro....  i have limited but "intense" sailing experience...
> never sailed until an old friend needed someone to crew for a trip two 
> years
> ago.....  from connecticut to the abacos.  so i took a 3 month vaca/leave
> from work and went.  the 2 of us sailed his c&c37 mostly "outside", 
> several
> passages over 50 hours, (3 on , 3 off).   went "inside" only for the 
> capes,
> thru dismal swamp canal, etc....  we left stamford late oct and it was
> freezing until about charleston when it finally warmed up..... some very
> awsome times, some not some awesome times (and one very shaky time).
>
> in any case, i got the bug in a big way....  last summer rented a pearson 
> 26
> for a week in new hampshire, and got my wife hooked as well.  so now its
> time to buy one for myself.
>
> i'm trying to find time to get down to edenton (and maybe SC?).. but in 
> the
> meantime, if anyone on the list has one closer to pa that i could look at, 
> i
> would greatly appreciate hearing from them.... and any general advice as
> well.
>
> i could go new, would be nice, but thats a good chunk of change for a 
> first
> boat.  lots of catalinas, o'days, macgregors, precisions for sale around
> here, but i'm pretty convinced  rhodes is the way i want to go.
>
> thanks again.. it looks like there is a lot of info and help available on
> this site.
>
> bob mellor
> bethlehem, pa, usa
>
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