[Rhodes22-list] A final question on the Rhodes 22

[Roger Pihlaja]

Bary,

About 4 years ago, Daniel & Gary, my two sons, grew to be large enough to
start feeling cramped in the V-berth.  Stan sold me the V-berth extender &
filler cushion.  Basically, the V-berth extender allows the starboard side
V-berth sleeper to slide aft a couple of feet over the top of the head.
This, in turn, frees up the bow area for the feet of the port side V-berth
sleeper.  Daniel & Gary are now 21 years old & 6' 1" tall and 18 years old &
6' 2-1/2" inches tall respectively.  They slept in the V-berth this summer
with no complaints.  The V-berth extender kept me from having to buy a
bigger boat.  This might very well solve your problem.  Talk to Stan.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bary Cote and Family" <bcote at lighthouse.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 5:51 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] A final question on the Rhodes 22


> Bill,
> Thanks for patiently answering my question on the falling CB.  Now the
question that is keeping my wife from agreeing to buy the Rhodes:
>
> Where can we sleep without reorganizing the cabin?
>
> I'm 6'3 (295 lbs) and my wife is 5'2" 125 lbs.
>
> We read with great interest Mary Lou's writing about Fretless in "Sailing
Small".  In that writing, she mentioned that the dinette becomes a "Small
Double Bed".  She stated that both her and her husband were small persons,
so that was probably not an issue.
>
> Not so with us.  Also, my wife hates the idea of sitting up the bed and
taking down the dinette when we lay down.  On our Columbia C-22, we slept
very comfortably in the V-birth.  I always got up first (being a morning
person) and would sit at the table and sip coffee while talking to my wife
who preferred to lay in bed and talk until she was awake enough to get up.
>
> On the Rhodes, can the V-birth be extended enough to allow 2 normal sized
people (like us) to sleep, so the dinette can be saved for morning wake up
time?
>
> This seems like a small and silly matter, but to my wife and I, who really
enjoy over-nighting on a boat, it is of vital importance.
>
> Thanks,
> Bary
>
> "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of values."
>                  --Albert Einstein
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