[Rhodes22-list] Is there a Rhodes 22 in northern Ohio thatwecansee?

[Steve Alm]

Rik,

I hope you're enjoying your M15.  We loved ours.  Isn't it interesting how
our boating needs evolve over the years?  Mary Ann and I live about five
minutes from a boat ramp on the Mississippi.  We've been talking about this
for a couple years and this week decided to buy a little motor boat for
tooling around on the river.  We got an '83 Lund 16' fishing boat with an
Evinrude 35hp--a very Minnesota boat!  We've been out twice so far and it's
almost silly how easy it is to tow, launch and retrieve compared to what
we're use to.  We've gone up and down through the locks and to both downtown
Minneapolis and St. Paul, with miles of wooded, sandy beaches in between.
We're also close to the confluence of the Minnesota River, so there's lots
of new places to visit and explore.

The river is beautiful but we certainly wouldn't go there on the Rhodes.  I
think everyone eventually needs at least two boats.

Slim

On 8/14/04 9:23 AM, "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Rummy,
> 
> No, not really. I do miss many of the great features that were on our
> R22. BUT, you know everybody always talks about all boats being a
> compromise. When we bought the R22 we thought we could compromise
> between a live aboard type boat (winter) and a quick easy daysailer
> (summer). It's true, the R22 could fulfill both of these roles if she
> had to, but not as well as a boat that is really made for each specific
> task.
> 
> I found that I was not sailing in the summer because the R22 took too
> long to set up. Now don't get me wrong here. The R22 is not hard to set
> up "_for a 22 foot boat_" !! I was perfectly happy to take the R22 out
> and set it up for an all day thing. Trouble is, in the summer lately, I
> never seem to have all day. I usually can get more like 4 hours. That's
> not enough time for the R22, so I bought a little old Montgomery 15. I
> can set up the M-15 in about 15 minutes, literally with one hand and no
> mechanical assistance. I didn't go out this week, had a cold and didn't
> feel all that great, but I have been out a half dozen times in the
> evenings (4 hour stretches) in the last month, with the M-15. In our
> area, there is really no possibility of keeping the boat in a slip and
> just jumping on and going, like you can do. Here we have to trailer,
> every time.
> 
> Then there's the Flicka. Smaller, yet bigger. Can go anywhere. 6,000
> lbs. instead of 3,000 lbs. Full time standing head room. Storage space
> that would rival even the R22. BUT, not very trailerable. You can do it,
> but it's a lot of work and ramp launching is not really something I want
> to get into with this boat. But it kinda gets back to Bill's puzzle
> thing again. When you are planning to be on a boat for a longer period
> of time, say a month, I, at least, want to be able to put things
> someplace and leave them there. In our R22 we would have to make up the
> bed every night, for example. It was simple enough to do and it worked
> very well, but I wanted to be able to have a bed that was there all the
> time.
> 
> I always loved our R22 and I will always speak highly of her. She was an
> excellent sailer and really an all round good boat. I may not have sold
> her if someone had not come along and made a good offer for her. What I
> found was that I wanted to compromise less. It took 2 boats to replace
> our R 22, but find I am now truly compromising less. It took us three
> years to figure out what we really wanted/needed from our boat(s). What
> I think we really learned is that we needed 2 boats to do what we do,
> the way we want to do it.
> 
> Make sense??  :-)
> 
> Rik
> 
> R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Rik,
>> Am I understanding that you might be suffering from buyers remorse and
>> would really like your R22 back?
>>  
>> Rummy
> 
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