[Rhodes22-list] Welcome Patrick - You want a Rhodes

[Caesar Paul]

Hi Al, Patrick,
 
I am a first season Rhodes owner, living in Pullman WA, and the Rhodes is the first boat I owned.  After becoming interested in sailing, I went to the bookstore and bought a book, started reading, then started searching.  This search led me to the Rhodes 22, and I compared every other boat around 22 ft to the Rhodes, and the Rhodes came out way ahead of all of them.  It was somewhat flattering to learn the naval architect and experienced seamen came to a similar conclusion to this non seaman. 
 
 As a "land lubber" for all my life, being non-sinkable was a huge selling point for me.  Being non-cap sizable under sail gives me confidence to experiment and discover, and  keeps me and my family safe and dry if and when we make foolish mistakes.
 
If you guys want to come to Pullman, WA, I will be happy to give you the grand tour and a sail on the beautiful lake Coeur D' Alene  in Idaho.
 
Thanks for joining in.
 
Caesar

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Al Gunther <al.gunther at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Al Gunther <al.gunther at gmail.com>
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Welcome Patrick - You want a Rhodes
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:40 AM

Hi Patrick, I'm new to the list as well - I been lurking a few days..( Hi
everybody! )  I did have the good fortune to actually see a Rhodes 22 last
fall at the boat show in St. Claire Shores (Detroit).  Eldon (Stan's
brother) gave me the  grand tour -  He spent like an hour and 20 minutes
answering all my questions from stem to stern literally and figuratively.
It's exactly what I want and need.  I just got to pay off some bills
(daughter getting married, remodel mother's house, a few kids college
bills)
then I will have one.

It's not the boat to sail to Pongo-Pongo , though people have done it with
a
lot less.  However it's incredibly well thought out, tough, easy to handle
and live with, spacious (for 22 feet) , shallow draft, easy to launch.  I
was really impressed.  Yeah - I've looked a lot , I can't see anything
that's as easy to live with, practical, and innovative as the Rhodes.  I
kind of bet everyone here is going to tell you that. Go see one.  Find Eldon
and Stan - these guys are the real deal, no high pressure sales team, no
gimmicks - no flash just a good boat that's been refined for years and
years
till it's better than any little trailerable sail boat out there.

My first post-  hope I did this correctly.   Nice to be here, looking to
meeting all of you.

Al Gunther
al.gunther at gmail.com
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