[Rhodes22-list] bob mellor - some information

[Bill Effros]

Bob,

Stick with Stan.

He'll make you a good deal on the trade-in boat, and put you first in 
line for the best used Rhodes that comes in.  You'll wind up with the 
best Rhodes in the price range you can afford, which he will have the 
time to re-build for you during his off-season.  You'll be on the water 
while you wait for your own boat.  Good for you, good for Stan.

No matter what trade-in boat you sail during the interim, you will 
really, really appreciate the special features of the Rhodes when you 
get your own.

Bill Effros



bobmellor wrote:
> 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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