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

Wed Oct 6 21:18:41 EDT 2010

We hope there will be some more sailing. My job will keep me away for the
next couple of weekends, so fingers crossed for a warm fall.

As for racing...nah. We'll just be out there doing our best "Hepburn and
Tracy" imitation. (Wink to Ben.) Witty banter getting from point A to point
B and back again and then drinks under the Bimini.

Lisa and Ron

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Caesar Paul <caesarpaul01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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