[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes22 spotting

[Ronald Lipton]

Rafe,

  Where did you motor to?  I am in Monroe harbor this year 
but I keep the boat in Michigan city.  I plan to sail down to
Chicago either next weekend or the one after, depending on 
how much work I need to do to finish preparation and how 
much help I have.  

I will pay attention to the weather reports. It is not good to 
get caught 20 miles from the nearest harbor when the 
weather turns.  The lake can get pretty nasty when there 
have been a few days of North winds with the full 300 mile 
fetch.

Ron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rafe" <rafe00 at ameritech.net>
To: "Rhodes22-list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:43 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Rhodes22 spotting


> While motoring up the river we saw a lighter green
> Rhodes22 at Crowley's Yacht Yard in Chicago.  Anyone
> on this list? 
> 
> 
> Sunday May 2 - Lake Michigan knocked us around
> alalotoday.  With the mast down we had no choice but
> to motor.  Every 6th wave was a huge wall of water - I
> found it better not to look behind us.  A couple times
> we had a wall of water right in front of the boat. 
> The boat would just start to  nip into the wave before
> the wave would move on.  When you are in the low part
> of one wave looking up into the high part of another,
> 4 to 6 foot waves look very large (they look like 8 to
> 12 foot waves).  We only took one big wave on the side
> and RoRooook it very well.  I got splashed just that
> one time - very dry boat, but I am going to start
> paying much closer attention to the whweathereports. 
> Sometimes you just have to wait.  
> 
> Rafe and Amy
> 1988 Rhodes22 - RoRoo
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