[Rhodes22-list] Hello, for the fifth time

[peter klappert]

Dear Rhodies,

This message will eventually explain itself, I hope.

I just figured out why none of my postings have gone out to the list: I originally registered using a different email address. Since mail to that address is forwarded to the address I'm now using, I didn't realize there was a disconnect. It was making me paranoid. ("Help! The paranoids are after me!")

So here was my 4th attempt to say hello:

Hello to everyone. I joined the list back in June and have enjoyed listening to the conversation. I've also sent 3 messages which never came back to me--via the list or via a "can't be delivered" message. 

Since I'm just a stowaway on the list--I don't yet have my own Rhodes--I thought maybe I needed to go through some kind of initiation rite. The weird thing is that I can't find those earlier in my Drafts or Sent folders.

The most recent message was for those who've been comparing notes on outboards: the latest issue of Practical Sailor has a review of the updated 4hp and 6hp Yamaha's & it's overwhelming positive. (Vol.26 #8, August 2010. WWW.practical-sailor.com)

In the 2nd attempt to join you, I was just piping up about SAILING BIG.... I think I've read most of the books about trailerable pocket cruisers now in print, and SAILING BIG is one of the most useful. There's a new book I saw get favorable notice in SAILING or CRUISING WORLD: THE SAILOR'S BOOK of SMALL CRUISING SAILBOATS. It's virtually an encyclopedia & covers 360 boats under 26 feet. It's full of useful specs, drawings, etc., though of course it can't be very specific about any of the 360. But the author seems to have something against Stan's boats, both the Picnic (he uses "supposedly" 3 times in the commentary) and the Rhodes 22--so much so that it makes me distrust his other commentaries. He implies Philip Rhodes didn't design the Rhodes-22.

I just looked: I saved my first attempt to reach you guys as a WordPerfect doc, so I'll just paste that in here by way of one more introduction. 

The original attempt, June 14:

"Frank, Lee, Dan & any other Rhodes22 folks in the DC area--

"I've just started reading the Rhodes22 List, and it's a great recommendation for buying the boat. (Probably the best recommendation after Stan himself.)

"I currently split my time between DC and Apollo Beach FL. I'll probably buy a trailerable cruiser within the year, and I'm pretty sure it will be a Rhodes22. But I'd feel like a damned fool doing so without ever being aboard one, let alone sailing one. 
 
"If someone is looking for crew in the DC area this summer, or in the Tampa Bay / Sarasota area after mid-September, I hope they'll get in touch. (I'm in FL right now but will be back in DC by 6/20)

"Meanwhile, I'll keep learning from the list! Thanks to you all"

And I HAVE been learning, thanks to you all.

--Peter

Peter Klappert
Washington, DC & Apollo Beach, FL
peterklappert at comcast.net




----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 8:37:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] W T F

Well, my excuse is that I've been travelling not sailing and then all 
of a sudden Eudora stopped being able to send email. My ISP swore it 
wasn't them so I've been fussing with antivirus and firewall only to 
discover that some info they gave me a month ago when I started get 
certificate errors was part of the problem. I think I may have solved 
it (for now - maybe)

Mary Lou


Peter Klappert
Peterklappert at comcast.net
Washington, DC  & Apollo Beach