[Rhodes22-list] Ernesto does a number on hatch cover

Tue Sep 5 09:42:13 EDT 2006

Rory, right before Hurricane Isabel hit in Sept 2003, someone posted a URL 
(if I remember correctly... or possibly copied it into the email) on how to 
prepare a boat for a hurricane... it is worth revisiting.  It helped me a 
lot in my preparation for Isabel... Previously I had been on a Moorings 
charter while sailing around Grenada when a tropical storm was predicted; so 
I had already been through the drill... you might want to check it out... 
the most notable thing I noticed when I saw your posted picture was that 
your boat was not well-prepared... the boom should have been removed; the 
mast lowered; all "loose" items from topside removed or well-tied down.

My Rhodes is much older than yours and was refurbished much earlier.  I have 
a different setup apparently for my poptop... it is locked into the lifting 
bars so I can't see how it could be pulled up by the wind (at least without 
pulling out the lift bars themselves)... however had your mast been down it 
seems it would have prevented the poptop from being lifted up.

My Rhodes went through Isabel (which was on a much bigger scale) with no 
damage at all.  Nor did I have any damage during Ernesto which hit pretty 
hard here in Hampton Roads (although nothing like Isabel).

In the Granada situation, we were on a boat in which the mast couldn't be 
lowered (a much larger boat); however all lines were removed where possible 
and well-secured; the sails removed; the boom detached from the topping lift 
and very well secured.

Question: have you thought through what would happen if a storm surge 
"floated" your boat off the boat lift? Again, in Isabel, boats that were too 
tightly tied down actually lifted the pilings out causing a lot of damage to 
the docks and other boats as the boats in question were pushed into the 
others.  I don't know anything about boat lifts, but the thought occurred to 
me.

The only thing one knows for sure about storms is that they are 
unpredictable... neither Ernesto or Isabel, for that matter, were expected 
to be as severe as they turned out to be in this area.  Its always a crap 
shoot... I've spent a lot of time preparing for storms that totally passed 
us by too.

Saroj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rory Orkin" <roryorkin at earthlink.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Ernesto does a number on hatch cover

>
> Got it.. Guess you are right..
> I did not notice the cleat on the step .. Perhaps it is there..
> What I found it that the white piece of plastic that engages the lock was
> actually broken in two.. I don't know if this happined first as a result 
> of
> the wind , then the pop top was lifted when the wind could get into the
> cabin or if it fractured as a result of the beating the entire pop top
> assembly took.
>
>
> Gregg J. MacMillan-2 wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't look like the jpg went thru.
>>
>> Here's a link to it...
>>
>> http://macgra.com/poptop.jpg
>>
>>>Rory--
>>>
>>>At first I thought you were probably missing two holes. My 1986 has
>>>two holes to lock the pop top in the down position. Apparently, at
>>>some point Stan must have decided to eliminate those two holes.
>>>Attached is a description from the newer owners manual how he
>>>suggests locking the pop top on the newer models. I suspect when
>>>yours was reconditioned, you got the new hardware.
>>>
>>>--Gregg
>>>
>>>At 3:45 PM -0700 9/4/06, Rory Orkin wrote:
>>>>What I discovered however is that it seems that there is no way for that
> pop
>>>>top to be held down..
>>>>Isn't there supposed to be a hole in the inner pop top support that 
>>>>locks
>>>>the pop top when closed.
>>>>This is a recon 2000 boat just purchased this year.. The only holes I
> have
>>>>are for locking in up position.. Is this a mfg flaw ??
>>>>I never realized it but as this is set up now , one could simply lift 
>>>>the
>>>>entire pop top up.. No lock other than on the sliding part.. which only
>>>>locks the sliding part. What am I missing ??
>>>>                                    Rory
>>>
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