[Rhodes22-list] I really appreciate you guys

[Roger Pihlaja]

Barney,

The problem is that bow anchor platforms do not scale at the same rate as
the rest of the boat.  There is sort of a minimum size for an anchor
platform on any size boat that is set more by the size of the humans that
have to use it than by the size of the boat or the anchor.  On a relatively
small boat, like a Rhodes 22, this minimum size is sufficiently large to
cause potential problems with aesthetics, weight distribution, and windage.
On a larger boat, like your Soverel 33, the size, weight, and windage of the
anchor platform is proportionately less of an issue.

With the roller furling genoa and control lines up there on the bow, how
were you intending to have your anchor platform?  Did you intend to raise up
the roller furling spool and stow the anchor under it or were you intending
to mount the anchor at an angle to the centerline of the boat?

In any event, that doesn't leave much sitting room for bikini-clad women for
any reasonable sized platform.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium

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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] I really appreciate you guys


> Ireally appreciate the response regarding the bow pulpit-sprit
installation thing. I will try to clarify where I was coming from. If anyone
is interested go to www.beachfiber.com and there is where my curiosity on
this was born.
> I was an owner of a Soverel 33 about 30 years ago that boat had a bow
sprit ( everybody called it the pulpit) and almost any bikini -clad lass
that ever stepped on the boat wanted to sit up there when sailing- very nice
accomodation in any captains eye.  The sprit on that boat had a stainless
pipe down to the bow eye and forestay to the mast The sprit was made with a
plank with a fiberglass cover and teak top surface.
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