[Rhodes22-list] to change the subject

[john Belanger]

stan, 
  i like the idea because one of the biggest hurdles is a place to keep the boat and enough time to enjoy it. shared ownership via a club membership may be just the ticket. plus the shared responsibility for accommadations.
  p.s. i know you were producing the picnic 17 sometime back. there apparently was an article in the magazine "small craft advisor" on 'nautical dick'. i have not read it. only the thank you letter in the current issue from the author in response to great the letters to the author he received. seems like it was in the july/august issue. having produced the r22 for years now perhaps you should go retro and produce a new picnic 17,(or you could call it the rhodes 17). business wise it would cover like the wwp 15 and 19, or compac 16 and 23. my guess would be to see how well the reintroduction of the sanibel 18 is doing.  just my .02 cents. john b

stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
  did not get enough of a response - you will have to come up the entire mil !

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Sailor" 
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" 
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] to change the subject


> How about a consortium of R-22 owners with GBI at the
> helm?
>
> elle
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> --- stan wrote:
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>> If we have any real entrepreneur Rhodies on this
>> distinguished list, an 80 acre waterfront parcel
>> just came on the market since its owner died and
>> left it to relatives in LA and they want to sell it
>> and it may be ideal for an idea whose time may have
>> come. With about 4,000 feet of water frontage
>> (creek and river - the Yeopim River which leads to
>> Albemarle Sound which is part of the largest
>> brackish water estuary in the US or second largest
>> if you are considering salt water and which goes
>> everywhere in the world without even having to go
>> under a bridge) this could be the right place for a
>> sailors campy vacation resort.
>>
>> Loads of folks would like to sail but do not have a
>> place to keep a boat nor the time to make owning one
>> worth the investment. The idea of being able to
>> rent a cottage with a sailboat attached for a week
>> or a month once a year would satisfy their sailing
>> itch while allowing their mates not to be
>> necessarily attached to them every minute they are
>> on the boat; or to use the cottage or a room rental
>> as a jumping off base for overnight sailing
>> adventures. There are many variations to this theme
>> but I know we lose lots of sales to sailor wannabes
>> because owning a boat is an impractical solution to
>> satisfying their sailing itch and their resistance
>> to their sailboat ownership urge triumphs, with a
>> sad sigh from the dreamer side of the brain.
>>
>> It is a long term project and has the advantage that
>> there is only one way the value of such waterfront
>> land will eventually go - particularly in this part
>> of NC where it is beautiful 70 degree sailing
>> weather as I write.
>>
>> stan
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