[Rhodes22-list] beginning of the end

[chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com]

We've know each other for 43 years.  In that time you have been my mentor and friend.  You and your creation have inspired me and my wife Alice, to go where no Rhodes has gone before (at least in the way we did it).  Heck, I am negotiating shipping to Italy for my Rhodes as we speak. I think the Rhodes 22 should be known as the Stan 22 from now on. You have earned your rest, and the appreciation of the thousands of sailors that you and your boat have touched. Thank you Stan and Rose and Elton.  I am writing  this as I sit in a snug anchorage in the uninhabited island of Royal Island in the Bahamas.....a place I first visited in my first Rhodes 23 years ago. I never doubted the boat nor its creator. Thank you Stan. 

Chris Geankoplis 
S/V Enosis I
1983 Stan 22

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> On May 18, 2017, at 1:02 PM, Stan Spitzer <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
> 
> To all the great Rhodes owners on the List (persona non grata know who you are):
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> 
> As it must to all who pass this way, unless a strategic partner(s) line is tossed, the Rhodes 22 is being stocked for its sail into the sunset.
> 
> Whatever gods may be, having collectively conspired with their tools of death (Elton's), dementia (Rose's) and old age (mine), are sending the Rhodes on its final sail to parts unknown.
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> For private sale buyers and sellers who negotiated the C of S program out at their closings, the parts department is now closed.  GB Commitments, and plant projects under way, continue being honored.
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> Thanks to all Rhodies who contributed to such a long running, fun adventure.  The Annapolis Show, being paid for, must go on.  For those who can make it, if I can, will see you then.
> 
> stan
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