[Rhodes22-list] Anne & Wally

Tue May 13 11:53:02 EDT 2003

Wally, 

The new boat is an S2 9.2C, 30 ft., center cockpit. 
It draws 4' ll" and is set up well for single handling
with the center cockpit. The aft cockpit version is a
very sleek looking boat but mine looks like it needs a
diet, some like the looks of it, some don't. S2 is
still in business building high-end powerboats,
Tiaras, but got out of the sailboat business in the
late 80's.  They made some really fast boats and
dominated racing for awhile (Anne races an S2) but
mine was built for comfort not speed.  I was hoping to
find a partner for the Rhodes 22 and keep it but so
far no luck.  My wife wants me to sell it and that's
probably what I need to do.  The R-22 actually has a
bigger cockpit and is better suited to sailing
Pickwick but I wanted something I do extended stays
and trips on and the S2 9.2C certainly is more
comfortable for that.  Pickwick is a very nice lake
but very developed (lots of million dollar homes) and
gets crowded on the weekends.  Most of my pilot
friends do their boating during the week and let the 9
to 5 ers have it for the weekend.  I think the first
trip I take will be downriver to Kentucky Lake to see
Anne and then upriver to see your lake.  I'll probably
move the boat one lake at a time and leave it for a
week or two at a time and auto home.  Kentucky lake is
only a couple of days sailing.  Your lake will take
some more time.

Brad
--- Wally Buck <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> Glad you were able to loosen rudder, it is always
> nice to save a few bucks. 
> By the way, I forgot what kind of boat did you get?
> What does your boat 
> draw? Are you keeping the R22?
> 
> I think Chattanooga got the worst of the flooding
> but then again that is 
> historically the case. Before TVA came along
> Chattanooga used to flood 
> frequently. The problem really wasn't just the rain
> the last two weeks. We 
> had about the same amount 6 weeks or so ago. Water
> levels here were already 
> higher than normal spring pool so things were much
> worse. I know they opened 
> the spill gates on all the damns around here. I
> would think if the spring 
> showers are over things will return to normal in a
> week or so, just a guess.
> 
> Your on Pickwick aren't you? ....The couple in the
> slip next to me are new 
> to sailing. Last year they bought an O'Day 222 and
> wanted something bigger 
> with in four months. A couple of weeks ago they
> wound up buying a Catalina 
> 30 (1980 something I think) home ported in Pickwick.
> I don't know the name 
> but it has been down your way for a while. Do you
> know anyone who sold a C30 
> lately? Anyway they were in the process of moving
> the boat up river when all 
> this mess started. The boat has been sitting in a
> marina at Florence for 
> almost two weeks now waiitng for the river to calm
> down. Last I heard all 
> the locks on this end were still shut down. They
> said Pickwick was a nice 
> lake.
> 
> Sailing Saturday was more like ocean sailing and I
> had a blast. It was the 
> first time we actually got a little soaked while
> sailing the R22. Between 
> the extra strong current, constant whitecaps and the
> heavy wind the boat was 
> really bounced around. We almost broached a couple
> of times running with 
> furled main and genny! There is still a lot of
> debris floating around but we 
> managed to stay clear of every thing. All in all
> boat and crew handled it 
> well. I chickened out Sunday, it was blowing a
> steady 20 - 30 according to 
> local weather guys. Heck I was still worn out from
> the Saturday joy ride.
> 
> Wally
> 
> 
> >From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Anne & Wally
> >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >They must be keeping the water levels high on your
> >ends so us good folks in the middle can enjoy our
> >lake.  Actually the water level is quite high but
> all
> >the marinas are still dry.  My other boat hit the
> >water last Thursday and I motored it from Aqua
> Marina
> >to its new home at the State Park Marina.  The
> rudder
> >was frozen from being on the hard for the winter
> >combined with Chesapeake water and Aqua Marine
> offered
> >to haul it for free and fix it while I was out of
> >town.  I looked around at all the 50 ft.+
> half-million
> >dollar boats in the yard and remembered all the
> >warnings about them not coming in on budget for
> >repairs.  I was able to get access to the rudder
> post
> >from the aft cabin and free it myself, and then
> >practiced tacking while docked about a hundred
> times.
> >It may have looked a little strange but it worked
> and
> >was free!  Fan and Cora went with me to the lake
> >Saturday and I spent a couple of hours finding
> >cubbyholes for everything while a friend of Fan's
> took
> >the helm on the "iron ginny".  I came topsides and
> saw
> >we were in 10 feet of water and realized if it
> weren't
> >for the high water we'd be aground.  Cora had a
> good
> >time exploring every corner of the boat until she
> hit
> >her head but got over that quickly.  Does any one
> have
> >an idea how long its going to take the Corps to get
> >the water level back to normal?  Flying in from El
> >Paso this morning I could see the Mississippi was
> >still in its banks but not by much.  Since I no
> longer
> >live in an Airstream trailer in the river bottom I
> >don't pay much attention to the river stage
> anymore,
> >however, the level of "Old Man River" determines
> how
> >much water is released everywhere else.
> >
> >Brad
> >
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