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

[Karen Johnson]

I would like some input on just how easy or difficult the Rhodes 22 is to
trailer sail (set-up and launch at the ramp).  Especially how difficult it
is to raise the mast and how heavy is the mast with the inner-furled main?
The boat we are looking at has a mast raising system purchased from GB in
2003.

Karen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Is there a Rhodes 22 in northern
Ohiothatwecansee?


> 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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