[Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown

[Mary Lou Troy]

Nope, not me. I was looking for vang ideas a while ago but didn't come up with anything definitive. Still sailing without one. The unresolved problem is where to attach the vang so you can still raise the pop-top easily. I would think that a vang would be subject to fairly high loads so you would want the attachment point to be pretty strong.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Swan Creek, MD / Ft. Washington, PA
> 
> From: Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 12:21:27 EDT
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown
> 
> Jim
> If I remember right, Mary Lou has a vang.  I think see
> posted some pics a while back.
> Steve
> 
> 
> --- Jim White <jdwhite at panam.edu> wrote:
> > Hi ya'll
> > Haven't had a chance to post since putting Le
> > Menagerie in the water. We 
> > had to replace some of the standing rigging, and
> > make some small changes, 
> > but finally got through the shakedown about two
> > weeks ago. WHAT A BOAT! The 
> > R-22 is about the friendliest boat I've ever
> > handled!!! Even with our old 
> > blown out sails, it still points decently high, and
> > downwind with the big 
> > genny is tons of fun.
> > 
> > Fathers day, I took it out into the open Gulf
> > (Winds: 12 g 20 / seas-2,3') 
> > and had a blast. It was a maze of shallow water, and
> > other boats (both sail 
> > and power, some large), to get out of the bay, not
> > to mention beating the 
> > whole way, but she never missed a tack. The Gulf was
> > blue and fresh, and we 
> > trolled for kingfish for awhile, before heading in
> > on the run, 
> > wing-on-wing, and then a long reach to Port Isabel.
> > Motored into our harbor 
> > (the entrance is a nightmare at low tide, it's only
> > about 75' wide, and so 
> > shallow that even we have to stay to the far port
> > side to enter....channel 
> > is silted in). BTW the 9.9, 4-stroke Honda is sweet,
> > more than enough for 
> > the boat....
> > 
> > We're locked into the summer pattern here, light
> > winds and small seas 
> > (barring a hurricane "event").  Hoping to sail up to
> > Corpus Christi in July 
> > (about 120 miles up the coast). Right now I'm
> > thinking of adding a vang? Is 
> > there something in the archives about that, or has
> > anyone else added one 
> > (I'm sure you probably have!)...hope I'm not listing
> > redundantly!
> > 
> > Thanks for all of your help and guidance with this
> > great boat....
> > 
> > Jim White
> > 
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