[Rhodes22-list] Refurbished Rhodes

Chris Geankoplis chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 15:18:18 EDT 2019


Stan has truly earned my respect and loyalty. Oh if only I could get the
chapters out on time. The computer will only work when on the power sucking
inverter. Getting close to the next installment. In the mean time here is a
photo from yesterday. Looks like sending a pic won’t work this way. I’ll
try another.
Chris Geankoplis
ENOSIS
Nisos  Thilia

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 02:09, Rod Ellner via Rhodes22-list <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> Still following your trip, Chris……Love the ‘Stan Fan’ …….me
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> > On Jul 30, 2019, at 3:56 PM, Chris Geankoplis <chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Stan,
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> > Take comfort in the fact that it is your authentic Rhodes and not some
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> > ersatz Rhodes that has compleated another 1000 miles plus trip along the
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> > coasts of Italy and Greece. Maybe not as catchy as “I like Ike” but I’m
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> > proud to be a “Stan Fan” for the last 43 years.
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> > Chris Geankoplis
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> > S/V ENOSIS
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> > Meganisi Island, Ionia, Greece
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> > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 19:53, stan <stan at generalboats.com> wrote:
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> >> To all those considering a refurbished Rhodes22, we would like to point
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> >> out again that the Rhodes value is, to a major degree, due to the fact
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> >> that it remains a boat in production.
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> >> In order to be fair to those who support General Boats efforts in
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> >> keeping the Rhodes 22 a boat in production for its second 50 years,
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> >> refurbished Rhodes purchased from an unauthorized source, will have a
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> >> boat that is no longer recognized by General Boats, as a Rhodes built by
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> >> General Boats and therefore such owners will not be able to turn to
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> >> General Boats for any proprietary Rhodes parts or services.
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> >> The business plan of such a rogue company is to cash in on all General
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> >> Boats investments in innovating and promoting the Rhodes sailboat to
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> >> maintain its historic longevity position as the leading trailing still
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> >> in production sailboat.  The rogue business plan is based on their being
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> >> a hitch hiking company, not needing to contribute a single dollar to
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> >> maintaining the high name recognition value of the Rhodes boats they
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> >> seek to recycle.
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> >> It is important Rhodes buyers understand that the purchase of a recycled
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> >> Rhodes from a company like Voilier is akin to shooting ones self in the
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> >> stan
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