[Rhodes22-list] came home without it...

[Chris Cowie]

Rob
I think the Rhodes 22 is a nice in between size boat.  Big enough to enjoy the weekend camping features,  small enough to not have the big boat headaches and trailerable.  I keep my boat at a slip and enjoy about 30 day sails and about 5 or 6 overnight camp outs per season.  There has been discussion on the list about marinas that can accommodate a fully rigged boat on a trailer that would allow for a quick launch at less cost than a slip.  I have sailed on smaller, bluejay 14' and larger Bristol 52 boats and find my r22 just right.  Good luck with your boat search.

Chris Cowie
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On Nov 20, 2010, at 3:57 PM, "Rob S." <sealovertech at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Still not a Rhodes owner.  Nice boat, but definitely not something I'd want to
> try to rig and launch single-handed in a cross current.   And not the sort of
> boat I'd pull out of the garage and take to the local water on a whim after work
> some day.    
> 
> 
> Would be a great bay boat, something to spend a weekend (or more) on, exploring
> the Chesapeake.   But I get to salty water once or twice a season on my 17, and
> I've done the "hey it's a nice breeze, think I'll get the boat out this
> afternoon" thing many more times.    I'd be giving that up for a weekend boat
> that I probably wouldn't use as much (wife and I rarely have the same weekend
> free of other obligations)
> 
> 
> 
> I'm weighing the pros and cons of the R22, my V17 and some mystery boat that
> might be somewhere in between.  V21/22? Catalina 22? --  those two seem to be
> designed primarily as trailerable first, sailboats second.   While I'd like to
> stick to the purest virtues of marlinspike sailing, my wants are more in line
> with lightweight trailerables. 
> 
> 
> So I'm on the fence.   Driving home I was thinking "now I see the appeal of
> those Macgregor 26x things -- roomy enough to camp in, but light enough to
> trailer easily and kick it off the dock if needed.
> 
> My V17 has three stays, weighs 800 lbs empty, I raise the mast with only my two
> hands, and I can push the trailer around my driveway and lift the tongue
> myself.  But no pop top, no furler and it's tight inside.   But the money I
> would spend on someone else's R22 (and then whatever I'd spend making it MY R22)
> would make my V17 the nicest in existence, and "fix" many of the problems I have
> with it --  no lights, difficult sail handling, some cosmetics)
> 
> 
> Ugh!  Why can't these decisions be easy?      Dry sailing?  slip?  bigger tow
> vehicle? (140,000 mile 6 cylinder pickup truck known to have fragile
> transmissions)
> 
> I'm already on a tight budget.  If this $2500 boat looked like the $20,000
> recycled at the Rhodes show I'd be washing it in the driveway right now and I'd
> really enjoy it 6 weekends out of the year.    But like any thirty plus year old
> boat there's a fair amount of things I'd want to fix/replace/fabricate/etc. that
> would be considerable work and/or cost for me and not worth the effort for the
> return of 6 weekends a year.
> 
> 
> I guess this really isn't the kind of post I expect a reply to.  There isn't a
> clear answer.
> 
> Rob 
> 
> 
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