[Rhodes22-list] Hello everybody--I'm back after lots of years--maybe time for another new R22

[Sid NW]

Sid NW wrote:
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> Dave, I live in Vancouver, BC and there are very few Rhodes 22 in the
> Pacific Northwest.  We have our summer home on a shallow bay called
> Boundary Bay on the Canada/US border and the Rhodes is the perfect boat.   
> Rather than sell your boat back to Stan, I would be interested in buying
> it from you and completing the maintenance and restoration here in Canada.  
> The drive from Texas with a boat is sure much shorter than from the East
> Coast.  
> Would you consider selling your boat when and if you buy one from Stan?  
> You can contact me at sidlandolt at gmail.com. Sid
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> Rhodes22Dave wrote:
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>> I bought my Rhodes 22 in late 2000 and had it delivered by Elton to Lake
>> Travis, Texas (near Austin) in April 2001.  My boat has been sitting in
>> the water ever since (I've never trailored it--just sailed down to a
>> marina a couple of times for bottom paint).
>> 
>> I think the last time I posted on this list was when a teflon ring
>> slipped off its set screw inside at the top of my mast where it separated
>> the mast from the inner furling system.  I did use Stan's crain system to
>> lower the mast by myself right over the water, replace both the teflon
>> ring and the mainsail, and then raise the mast and reset everything--and
>> then lower and raise it again because I forgot something.  That was many
>> years ago.
>> 
>> I dropped off the list as the mailing list inbox got longer and longer,
>> but now I will do the best I can with a new email account just used for
>> this list.
>> 
>> My wife and I live in Houston and drive to Austin (3 hour drive) almost
>> every weekend.  Two years ago we also bought a motorboat for a slip at
>> our weekend house on Lake Austin--we were the only house with an empty
>> slip--so now we split our time between the two boats and the two lakes,
>> but sailing is by far my favorite.
>> 
>> After ten years, mostly in the hot sun, it is time to do the maintainance
>> that I would have done myself all along if I lived here and especially if
>> we had a winter where the boat comes out of the water for storage and
>> repairs.  Instead, winter is the best time of year for sailing here (the
>> second half of fall through the first half of spring).  Summer is good
>> too--if you like 100 degree heat, less wind, and lots of ski boats.  So
>> in the summer we don't go out until early evening.
>> 
>> Being lazy, instead of replacing all the lines, fixing the head and doing
>> other routine maintenance, I am thinking of buying a new Rhodes 22 almost
>> exactly like my existing one, and giving him mine back to refurbish for
>> someone else.  I talked to Stan about this a year ago, but I keep
>> procrastinating because mine still is fully operative (except the head)
>> and relaxing and fun.  It's just that I don't know how much longer Stan
>> can keep making boats--none of us are getting any younger--and ten more
>> years from now my existing Rhodes 22 may be a candidate for Davy Jones
>> Locker.  I hope I am not too late.  I keep thinking that one of these
>> months or years I am going to find out that Stan has fully retired.
>> 
>> I was encouraged to see that someone on this list took delivery of a new
>> boat from Stan this April.  Sounds like General Boats is still in
>> business.  I am 70 and don't think I'll be lasting nearly as long as Stan
>> has, but I haven't retired either.
>> 
>> Anyway, it will be good to read the posts from some of the names that I
>> remember well from my prior time on this mailing list.
>> 
>> Dave (or David--I use both versions equally as much)
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