[Rhodes22-list] New Rhodes owners in Omaha

[Tom Van Heule]

Welcome Dave!

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 4:12 PM Chris Geankoplis <chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Welcome to the list. You will love your boat!  Lots of fun planning over
> the winter.
> Chris Geankoplis
> Enosis/Xenos
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:43 AM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dave,
> >
> > Congratulations on your new boat (and your excellent taste in boats), and
> > welcome to the list.
> >
> > Peter Nyberg
> > Coventry, CT
> > s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)
> >
> > > On 2021-12-20, at 00:40:12 EST, dlwelchne at yahoo.com wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > > What a pleasure to join this group. We are members with Jesse &
> > Corrie
> > > Shumaker of the Lake Manawa Sailing Association in Iowa.
> > > When I picked up my first very used cruiser (Helsen 20), Lake Manawa
> > folklore
> > > was that you shouldn’t drop anchor. Yet the Iowa DNR manual and DNR
> > staff
> > > affirmed you could. So I replaced the anchor light, got the boat
> > equipped, and
> > > started anchoring out. (bit.ly/dropping_anchor_deck) Others followed.
> > > Paula and I were were impressed with Jesse’s Rhodes 22 research and
> > thought why
> > > bother reinventing the wheel? My wife is into the furling jib and main.
> > As for
> > > me, a little dry ice, a massive lazarette, an outboard with an
> > alternator, and
> > > my professional work that can be done entirely remotely. The
> imagination
> > runs
> > > wild.
> > > My first mistake was telling Jesse in the fall that we had decided to
> > upgrade to
> > > the Rhodes in the 2022 sailing season. A couple weeks after that Ken
> and
> > Ruth
> > > Bates—Portage, Michigan—put their 1986 Rhodes on the market, Jesse
> > alerted me (I
> > > probably don’t need to tell you the guy’s a trouble maker). I
> > immediately got on
> > > the phone with the Bates, and was on the road within hours for the 2K
> > round trip
> > > drive. I came back with the boat and new friends.
> > > Of course our 250K Honda Oddysey was short 1K towing weight for a
> loaded
> > Rhodes
> > > & trailer. So my wife is now driving a loaded one owner Toyota
> > Highlander
> > > with 50K miles. That was the first of the presents we’ll be giving the
> > boat all
> > > winter and by far the most expensive.
> > > Merry Christmas to you all.
> > > Dave - s/v <a href="http://rhodes22.org/mailman/listinfo/rhodes22-list
> ">Knot
> > at
> > > Work</a> (to be renamed)
> > >
> >
> >
>