[Rhodes22-list] Trailer Sailing

[Blue Heron]

I'm the one who docks in Cleveland.

Wally, Mike, CJ and anyone else in NE Ohio, come to the Trailer Sailors Boat
Show party this Saturday.  It's a pot luck and there's usually a gathering
at the show to form caravan to the party.

Rick

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Mike Cheung <mikecheung at att.net> wrote:

>
> Wally,
>
> I'm a comparative newbie to the R22, but maybe that's good for your present
> questions.
>
> We got our R22, a 1993/2008 recycled boat from Stan, just this last July
> and
> had her out most every weekend on Lake Erie.  We trailer sail exclusively.
> It takes me, alone, about an hour and a little to rig the boat for sail or
> to unrig the boat for trailering.  With my wife's help, we have it down to
> about 45 minutes.  I did invest in "fast pins" for the shrouds and the
> forestay, as well as for the two pins on the mast crane and the bolt on the
> cabin poptop / mast traveller fitting.
>
> Launching is a cinch and goes pretty much as Stan describes in his web
> page.
> I just back down the ramp and tap the brakes once she's afloat.  That's if
> I
> have help.  If I'm solo, I get her down the ramp to just floating and go
> walk her back the rest of the way clear of the trailer.  I do usually get
> wet if I'm launching alone, though I think with a little planning and about
> 50' of line I could work it out to launch dray by myself if I needed to .
>
> As CJ said, this is an easy boat to single hand.  I end up doing so about
> 1/3 of the time and have zero issues with it.  I don't hesitate to take her
> out alone in up to 4 or 5 foot Lake Erie seas.  Though, I do wear a harness
> / self-inflating life preserver when alone and I'd suggest anyone single
> handing do the same.
>
> Getting back on the trailer is also easy.  If I've got help, we usually
> just
> walk her up until I can get the winch hook on the bow eye.  I've got a
> "magic" mark on the winch belt that leaves the boat in just the right
> position for trailering.  That was gotten purely by trial and error.  Winch
> up until that make is just at the drum and she's ready to haul out.  If
> we're feeling lazy, or it's windy, or I'm alone, I just set the trailer so
> the the bunks are just wet and then drive her on under power with the
> centerboard down.  Yep, that's right, with the centerboard down.  The
> extended centerboard works with the custom trailer to center her perfectly.
> With the bunks just wet, at a relatively slow speed (under walking speed
> just a bit), driving her on puts the hull on the trailer just shy of the
> "sweet spot" for trailering.  I can hook up the trailer winch hook to the
> bow eye with some gymnastics off the pulpit, but doable by this 51 y/o
> newbie.  Then it's just a matter of pushing the winch handle around a
> couple
> of times with my foot from the pulpit or by hand if I lay down on the
> foredeck, hanging off the pulpit a bit.  I get the magic mark in place,
> jump
> from the boat to the dock, hop in my tow vehicle (a 2005 Honda Pilot), and
> pull her out.
>
> Only helpful hint I can offer just now is to color code all the lines you
> use to secure the sail rig to the hull for trailering.  There's a fair
> number of lines and it saves quite a bit of time to know that the green
> lines secure the mainsail boom (along with the upper part of the genoa) to
> the mast, the blue lines secure the lower part of the genoa to the mast,
> the
> purple lines ....  You get the picture.
>
> What part of the north are you in?  If you're within striking distance NE
> Ohio, there are a couple R22s within reach that you could at least look at
> firsthand.  There's at least on other list member who docks on Erie in
> Cleveland Harbor, myself who trailers, and CJ who answered you earlier.
>
> Hope this is helpful, please feel free to ask any other questions you have.
>
> Mike Cheung
> s/v Muireann, 1993/2008 Rhodes 22
>
>
>
>
> - "Wallace E. Bohach" <webx2 at netzero.com> wrote:
> > Before buying, am looking for some confirmation and info on exclusively
> > trailer sailing a Rhodes.  We're northerners, fresh water sailers, out at
> > least once a week in season.  How about:
> >     Ease of  launch and recovery.  Sail it on?
> >     Rigging solo?
> >     Helpful hints?
> >     Any thing you've learned that I haven't thought of?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >             Wally
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