[Rhodes22-list] Elle and Surveyors..spilling the beans

Jim Connolly jbconnolly at comcast.net
Sun Aug 13 11:17:03 EDT 2006


I have the Tohatsu 20" shaft.  With the motor up, the very lowest tip of the
outboard is clear of the water when the boat is not pitching, with 200+lb me
at the rear of the cockpit watching it.  The rails on my motor lift extend a
bit above the gunwales.  I assume a 25" motor would need to be tipped, or
extra long rails installed on the motor lift.  FWIW.

Jim Connolly

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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Elle and Surveyors..spilling the beans

Elle,

Great news! I bet your boat will turn some heads.

As for outboard motors.... "high thrust" is not just the prop. There are
also differences in gearing. A firend has a high thrust Yamaha on his O'Day
and his reverse works so much better than mine. The prop gearing combo is
designed for deplacement hulls. He has had his a few years and so far so
good. Not much more than idle will have him at hull speed. Wide open my 2
stroke is not that much louder but you never really need to run the Yamha
wiide open. When we drag race he wins every time. At hull speed his motor is
very quiet.

My Merc 6 HP 2 Stroke works fine for inland conditions. In areas of strong
tides and currents I would want an 8 or 9 horse. I don't have remote linkage
for motor and haven't found the need. Many outboards have electric start,
kill, throttle and F/R/N all on tiller. I never thought mixing oil was that
big of a deal. This also means you don't have any motor oil to change. The
big thing with me is the weight of the 4 strokes. Most are near 100 pounds!

Twenty inch is "Long Shaft". Twenty Five is "Extra Long". Make sure that
your motor lift will allow the 25 inch to clear the water on all points of
sail. The extra long most likely would help some when hobby horsing in bad
weather.

Do you have any pics? I would love to see the wheel steering.

Wally


>From: "L. Sailor" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Elle and Surveyors..spilling the beans
>Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:02:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Ed, thanks for the reply....after a bit pf phone work, I found what I 
>was looking for...and then some....
>
>the first guy I called (in New Bern) was as charming as could 
>be....until he found out that it was a 22'
>boat....I guess he couldn't be bothered with a 'triflling' small 
>boat....This may be the one that you referenced, Ed. He had nothing 
>good to say about the R-22...about the only good thing he could say was 
>that it looked better in the slip than on the water (oh...he never 
>sailed one). His advice was to get a
>J-22 & a strong friend.
>
>i actually did find another one surveyor closer who had done R-22'a 
>previously....I will look for the one you mentioned.
>
>Why am I looking for a surveyor?
>
>  B/US requires a survey to get a full value policy boat 
>policy...B/US's policy is half the quote of another company's full 
>value policy.
>
>Why am I looking at boat insurance??
>
>Here it comes.....
>
>Because I BOUGHT A RECYCLED R-22 !!!!!!!!!!!!  It's RED!  Sailed it on 
>the Albemarle several weeks ago & was hooked.
>
>(Just a bit ahead of schedule!)
>
>elle
>
>
>
>
>--- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Elle:
> >      No I do not recall a name of a surveyor who has recently 
> > surveyed a boat in Edenton.  Get a copy of Good Old Boats and look 
> > up surveyors in the back.  I believe a famous surveyor guy lives in 
> > the area, his name is Bill Sandifer(?).  I recall one surveyor who 
> > was surveying a boat when I was visiting one time gave Stan a hard 
> > time, so I would not expect Stan to offer his name.  Although I do 
> > not believe that Stan took it personally, he just got mad at some of 
> > his assistants who said they had thouroughly checked things.
> >      There are good books on surveying.  I have a copy of Surveying 
> > Fiberglass Sailboats by Henry C Mustin, ISBN 0-07-044248-7.  It is 
> > not expensive and is available over WWW.  And you might look here:
> > http://www.CruisersNet.net
> >       Things have been quite on sailing subjects the last week.  It 
> > is interesting that some newbies jump on the list and ask a question 
> > and never acknowledge the answers nor do we hear from them for 
> > several years.
> >
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> > ~`~`_/)  ~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > L. Sailor wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, guys,
> > >
> > > Does anyone recall the name of the surveyor who previously 
> > > surveyed an R-22 in Edenton?
> > >
> > > elle
> > >
> > >
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