[Rhodes22-list] Rik and Sailing the open ocean ......

[Rik Sandberg]

Ed,

"Are you subtle?"

Rarely. :-) I'm merely saying that someone did make the trip from the 
east coast to Bermuda on board a Flicka, last summer. In no way should 
anyone construe this as a recommendation to try it on an R22. Completely 
different boats. It can however, and has been done in a *small* boat. 
With some mods it could probably be done in an R22. Not saying it's a 
great idea for just anybody though.

"Hasn’t a Flicka circumnavigated the world?"

Actually, I don't believe so. They've been about halfway and back, near 
as I can tell. But never all the way around that I know of.

Rik

Tootle wrote:

>Rik:
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>      Are you subtle?  Hasn’t a Flicka circumnavigated the world? 
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>Ed K
>Greenville, SC, USA
>Addendum:    bone in her teeth: a colloquial phrase implying that a boat is
>moving through the water at considerable speed. The "bone" is the bow wave
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>Rik Sandberg wrote:
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>>Richard,
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>>ya wanna' lighten up a little???
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>>I don't know how my name got involved in this, but somebody asked for 
>>the story about the Monty 15 going to Hawaii and I put up the link. I 
>>doubt this will bring on a rash of R22 disappearances in the gulf Stream.
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>>I do know somebody who did the trip in a Flicka last summer.
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>>Rik
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>>Richard Smith wrote:
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>>>Because some one sailed a 15 foot boat from the US to Hawaii does not mean
>>>that another larger boat could safely sail from the US to Bermuda.
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>>>1:  The Bermuda passage requires sailing in the Gulf Stream.  When a
>>>northerly blows (it does frequently) conditions in the stream become
>>>extremely hazardous for smaller vessels.  The passage to Hawaii on the
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>>>hand is mostly down wind, imbedded for a time  in the Humboldt Current
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>>>also flows south.  The guy's description on the Montgomery site
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>>>mostly, some times largish, following seas but not the vicious chop that
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>>>occur on the Bermuda passage.  He even slept so conditions must have been
>>>relatively tranquil.
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>>>Just because the Montgomery is much smaller then a Rhodes does not mean
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>>>not an able sea boat.  In fact with its low rig, split head sails and
>>>relatively deep rounded bottom it may be a more suitable vessel for ocean
>>>voyaging (one person only).
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>>>For what its worth... I have never read of a voyage by a small sailboat
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>>>Hawaii to the US.  Boats are generally shipped back to the US as deck
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>>>rather then endless beating into the prevailing northerlies.
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>>>No one boat can be all things.  I owned a Rhodes and thought it was a
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>>>boat but I would never use it for an ocean passage.
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>>>Richard Smith
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