[Rhodes22-list] New addition to the family: Nautisaurus

Wed Oct 6 18:08:09 EDT 2010

Hi and welcome!

I'm a Rhodes 22 "sailboat person" out in the Northwest, Washington State to be 
more precise.

Relatively new to sailing as well.  My third sailing season in coming to a close 
(sort of).

The 9.9 hp motor is more than enough for the Rhodes.  I barely crack the shuttle 
,and away she goes, nice and soothing.

If you plan to do much racing then go for a much smaller engine, I'm told.  If 
you plan to motor or sail to far away places and return by a fixed time, the 9.9 
hp will do fine.  Some will say a smaller engine will serve adequately.

Is there much sailing left where you are located?

Have fun and enjoy the boat.

Caesar 
Gentle Breeze
1986 Recycled 2008

________________________________
From: Lisa Lias <lisalias at gmail.com>
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 10:44:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] New addition to the family: Nautisaurus

Lisa here. We are in Goose Bay Marina in Welcome MD. A nice little marina
populated mostly by powerboats. But they do have a shop there, so once we
got her there, the trailer and motor could be fixed on site. While that was
underway we came out one day to load up the Naughti with life jackets and
that kind of thing and get the letters/numbers on (which also hit a snag -
West Marine was fresh out of the number "4" for a while. Just the number
"4," but we happen to need one for each side of the boat. We hear tell the
Coast Guard and Department of Natural Resources assign these id's for a
reason and you can't leave any out.)

So there we are bumbling around figuring out where all the convenient
hidey-holes are for everything from flares to toilet paper, and the guys are
in the shop. One is working, the other one is working on a six pack of
Bud-Lite. He kibbitzes for a while as we climb around on the boat and then
ultimately, by way of punctuating nothing in particular, shakes his head and
says, "Sailboat people."

Later we walked out where the slips are and after passing one power boat
after another get to a slip with a very nice Island Packet. The owner is on
the dock chatting and starts talking to us about all things boat and at one
point under his breath says "Not many sailboats here. But it's ok, They're
real nice people."

That's out new catch-phrase. Everytime we got confused putting the mast up
(which was a process which, mercifully, went unwitnessed by the Bud-Lite
guy) we looked at each other and said "Sailboat people."

So thanks for the welcome. At least there are other "Sailboat people" out
there.

Lisa

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

> Ron,
>
> Welcome aboard!  You can't ask too many questions so ask away.  You'll
> get plenty of answers and some of them may even agree with each other.
> For some reason my answers frequently disagree with ones I've posted
> earlier.
>
> Where's your home port on the Potomac?  Coincidentally I live in
> Maryland, sail a 1986 recycled in 2005, and had a burned-out thermostat
> on my "new" 9.9 hp outboard.  I wouldn't convert mine to a 15 hp.  It
> might help you insignificantly at battling seas in the perfect storm but
> the juice just isn't worth the squeeze.  My outboard moves me at 5 knots
> at about half throttle.  The theoretical hull speed on our boats is 5.99
> knots and a 9.9 hp will push you to about 7 knots in calm water.  Had I
> to do it over again I would have purchased an 8 hp or maybe even a 6.
>
> Enjoyed your post and your choice in boat name.  Good luck!
>
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Ron Kaye
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:18 AM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] New addition to the family: Nautisaurus
>
> Hello all
>
> So... my future wife, Lisa, and I were going to sell our places and buy
> a
> single house together this last Summer.  And move the kids, dogs, and
> cats
> all in together.  That idea turned out to be complex, frustrating,
> expensive
> and too difficult to do in one Summer.  So of course we decided to do
> something simple and fun - and what else could that be but buy a
> sailboat.
>
> I had owned a sailboat for a few years long long ago when life was
> simple
> and there were no children about.  When that life changed and children
> and
> jobs crowded for time and money, the sailboat had to sail out of our
> lives.
>  That was a 27' Balboa, the Kundalini Express.
>
> I took Lisa out on a Flying Scott over the Summer and she was hooked.
>
> Our recently purchased (then unnamed) Rhodes 22 is a '86 hull,
> refurbished
> and bought by the previous owners in 2005.  We had Stan's crew do quite
> a
> bit of additional and refurbish work on her after we bought her out of
> brokerage in Sept of this year. She looks brand new now.
>
> We have yet to launch the Nautisaurus since we burned a hub bearing on
> the
> trailer on the way up to Maryland from NC (we are going to dry-sail).
> The
> Nautisaurus arrived on top of a roll-back flatbed wrecker (remember to
> take
> the mast off the crutch if this happens to you, or it will tear down all
> the
> road signs - but we lowered it).  Then the Yamaha 9.9 need a thermostat
> that
> had to be manufactured deep inside Japan by an irritable and distracted
> Ninja.  More than two weeks to get a part.
>
> Question: Is there any advantage to converting the 9.9 to a 15? I'm told
> it
> is easy to do, but would we just going to burn fuel against hull speed?
>
> Raising the mast this weekend was some kind of adventure, arriving on
> the
> scene with about 45 minutes of daylight because of other life
> complications,
> and ending up confused with tiny flashlights panting and squinting at
> the
> instructions (ever heard of a simple illustration Stan - ok sorry, Stan
> we
> love you).  It got better in the light of the following day and we did
> the
> deed.  Next time around it might be a lot easier.
>
> The best part was when we were wallowing around in the cockpit trying to
> figure things out in the dark and the bimini was sitting in there and
> suddenly the motor lifted up and was grinding at the end of the lift and
> we
> had no idea why it came to life like that.  It was the bimini (in the
> case)
> pushing against the switch that we couldn't see.  The lift seemed to be
> undamaged by that accidental activation. Kevin at GBX told me not to run
> it
> up to the end of the lift with the motor or it would break.  I said OK.
> I
> told Lisa this.  She said OK.  The Nauti has a mind of her own.
>
> We have been reading the discussions here.  Interesting! We are going to
> ask
> a bunch of questions.  Brace yourself.  But for now we just wanted to
> say
> hello to fellow Rhodies.  We love our "new" Rhodes.  She's a beaut.
> We'll
> try and get a picture or two on here soon.  We are on the middle
> Potomac.
>
>
> Ron and Lisa
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