[Rhodes22-list] ..........question......Again..

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Willard Downs,
      If you have a Rhodes22, can't you buy fuel in an outboard motor can at a land gas station which, though still expensive, not quite marine prices?  The guys with the big power boats may be able to fuel up on the way if they are on a trailer, but afterward they would have to use the marinas.

Philip

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From: "Downs, Willard" <Willard at missouri.edu> 

> Burt -- 
> 
> Thanks for your reply..........sounds indeed like you understand my 
> conditions. I also agree with your analysis of who the fuel costs are 
> going to impact...............not the guys on my lake who are creating 
> the big wakes! If they can afford those boats, the cost of fuel is not 
> really an issue........it's the little guys who hurt when fuel on the 
> lake is 3.50-4.00. 
> 
> We can also be on the lake some during the week, when things are pretty 
> quiet, and that would be nice. Anyway, your experience verifies what I 
> was thinking anyway, and is re-assuring as to what's possible if proper 
> planning and care is taken. 
> 
> I'm not sure what we'll do exactly, but I've liked the looks and 
> features of the Rhodes. Our mission is to find a boat that is capable 
> enough for us to use on our lake on a reasonably frequent basis, but 
> still be able to afford! 
> 
> I'll let you know what we decide to do! 
> 
> Thanks again for your helpful reply. 
> 
> Sincerely, 
> 
> Willard Downs 
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> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] ..........question........ 
> 
> Hello Willard, 
> The conditions you describe are not uncommon where I most often sail 
> .... 
> the sea surrounding Shelter Island, New York.. Almost every weekend 
> sail 
> will find me in the midst of multiple cigarette wakes... often racing 
> from 
> Connecticut to one of our shoreline watering holes..... without regard 
> for right 
> of way, etc.... This along with multiple ferry boats, commercial fishing 
> boats, 
> and 50 foot plus powerboats from the Hampton, Sag Harbor area... After 
> 
> over ten years of sailing my 82 Rhodes 22 in these waters I have never 
> felt I 
> needed brown pants.... when under sail, proper seamanship has always 
> worked.... 
> 
> These wakes/wave heights, etc... are just part of the weekend in 
> this 
> otherwise delightful sailing area. Somehow, I doubt that these 
> Monsters, will 
> not feel the fuel pinch... like the average family with a below 30 foot 
> family 
> powerboat.... this past weekend they all but vanished leaving us 
> sailboats, 
> and the monsters.... . 
> Fortunately they may be escaped by sailing off towards Montauk, 
> Block 
> Island /Nantucket, etc.... 
> Capt. Burt Golden Snooch 
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