[Rhodes22-list] Delaware River

[FCrawford0707 at aol.com]

Will - If the Rhodes you spotted at Hancock Harbor was on Friday, June 24,  
it would have been our Sunday Morning - Wife (Andy) and I were in the midst  of 
the second leg of our passage from Edenton to Avalon, NJ.  We started  out 
Friday morning from the Bohemia River and made it thru the C &  D with the fair 
tide.  Wind was on the nose starting down the Delaware (I  guess it's still 
the River there, but it seems like the Bay to me), but less  than 10 kn, so 
conditions weren't bad.  About even with the Salem Plant,  however, the wind piped 
up and so did the whitecaps and chop - we had about 4  hours of pretty tough 
going, and pulled into the Cohansey River about  6:00.  We tied up at Hancock 
Harbor for the night and then departed about  6:30 Sat morning to catch a good 
bit of the fair tide toward Cape May.   Conditions were much better, (but as 
it always seems in the Delaware Bay,  wind still on the nose) -  and we did 
make it back to Avalon Sat  afternoon. 
     We chose the Rhodes in '94 over the other  "finalists" on our short list 
- Precision, Compac and Seaward  -, believing  it to be ideal for our 
conditions in Avalon - the right choice.  We're  still fans of the Rhodes and Stan's 
refit work over the winter was great.
    Frone Crawford
    s/v Sunday Morning